Tag: 1950s
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‘The Brute’ is an Unusually Straightforward Melodrama from Luis Buñuel
This is a a tawdry melodrama, but it’s fun-tawdry.
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‘Trapeze’: You Get What You Pay For
Akin to the circus, all one needs from ‘Trapeze’ is a good time.
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On Humphrey Bogart’s Last Move
‘The Harder They Fall’ is a solid, economic thriller.
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The Cutthroat Thrills of ‘Murder by Contract’
‘Murder by Contract’ is a lean, no-nonsense movie.
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Everyone is on Their A-Game in ‘Some Like It Hot’
The movie, aside from 1953’s ‘Niagara,’ is also the one, I think, which best showcases Monroe’s preternatural relationship with the camera.
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Doris Day is Fantastic in ‘Calamity Jane’
Day sings with her entire body in the movie.
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Forces of Personality
On ‘Boudu Saved from Drowning’ and ‘Elena and Her Men.’
Peterson Reviews 