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Review of Back Street (1961)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 25 Jan 2012

The third version of Fannie Hurst's novel, filmed in 1932 and 1941, is the weakest: Susan Hayward may be too old and too tough for the part…

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Review of Americana (1981)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 25 Jan 2012

This modest post-Vietnam War small-town melodrama represents the feature directing debut of actor David Carradine…

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Review of Frenzy (2015)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 22 Jan 2012

Frenzy marked 3 kinds of return for Hitchcock: return to England after 20 years, return to form after some flops, and return to the kind of…

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Review of Frenzy (1972)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 22 Jan 2012

Frenzy marked 3 kinds of return for Hitchcock: return to England after 20 years, return to form after some flops, and return to the kind of…

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Review of Frenzy (1946)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 22 Jan 2012

Frenzy marked 3 kinds of return for Hitchcock: return to England after 20 years, return to form after some flops, and return to the kind of…

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Review of Captain Caution (1940)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 21 Jan 2012

Hal Roach's historical swasbuckling adventure, which features a strong woman as its hero, was nominated for the Best Sound Oscar…

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Review of Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 20 Jan 2012

Starring Alan Ladd, Mitchell Leisen's moderately engaging political melodrama, is best known for using Nat King Cole's tune, Mona Lisa, which…

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Review of Cape Fear (1991)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 20 Jan 2012

Scorsese's remake (also hommage in some ways) is inferior to the original 1962 version, though the acting is good, and both Robert De Niro…

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Review of Can't Help Singing (1944)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 20 Jan 2012

This mediocre musical, starring Deanna Durbin in her only color film, was nominated for two Oscars…

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Review of Goodbye Again (1961)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 19 Jan 2012

Though well acted, especially by Ingrid Bergman, as the woman in love with the suave Yves Montand and the boyish Anthony Perkins, the melodrama…

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Review of Rome Adventure (1962)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 17 Jan 2012

Set in picaresque Rome, this prepsoterously plotted romantic melodrama features heartthrob Troy Donahue (Summer Place, Parrish) at the height…

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Review of Miss Bala (2011)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 16 Jan 2012

Announcing the arrival of a new directorial talent, Miss Bala is a powerfully haunting crime-thriller, which could be taken realistically as…

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Review of Contraband (2012)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 11 Jan 2012

Semi-effective heist thriller, in which the gritty style and visual floruishes can compensate only up to a point for the formulatic tale and…

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Review of Haywire (2011)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 11 Jan 2012

Uma Thurman and Angelina Jolie move over, Gina Carano, a new riveting action star is born in Soderbergh's Haywire, a globe-trotting spy thriller,…

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Review of My Favorite Wife (1940)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 08 Jan 2012

Garson Kanin is not Leo McCarey, who was originally assigned to direct this screwball comedy, reuniting Cary Grant and Irene Dunne (Awful Truth),…

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Review of The Naked Edge (1961)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 07 Jan 2012

Scripted by Joseph Stefano (better known for Hitchcock's Psycho), this mildly engaging suspense thriller became Gary Cooper's final film, released…

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Review of Pigskin Parade (1936)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 07 Jan 2012

This clunky musical (a formulaic combo of football feature and campus comedy) is best known today for featuring two actresses who would become…

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Review of The Corn Is Green (1979)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Jan 2012

Irving Rapper's screen version of Emlyn Williams semi-autobiographical play is well acted by Bette Davis as the spinster-teacher, but is too…

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Review of The Corn Is Green (1945)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Jan 2012

Irving Rapper's screen version of Emlyn Williams semi-autobiographical play is well acted by Bette Davis as the spinster-teacher, but is too…

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Review of Le Havre (2011)

By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 30 Dec 2011

The latest work by Finnish cult director Aki Kaurismaki is is his strongst in a decade--and one of 2011 best foreign pictures…

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