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Easter Parade, starring Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ann Miller

Easter Parade

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Easter Parade (1948), starring Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ann Miller

Synopsis of Easter Parade

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes (Fred Astaire) is crushed when his dancing partner and girlfriend (Ann Miller) refuses to start a new contract with him.  To prove that he doesn’t need Nadine, Don acquires a new, innocent protegee named Hannah Brown (Judy Garland).  He vows to make her a star in time for next year’s Easter Parade.

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Red River (1948), starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Sr., Noah Beery, Jr., directed by Howard Hawks

Red River

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Red River (1948), starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Sr., Noah Beery, Jr., directed by Howard Hawks

Product description of Red River

Red River (1948), starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Sr., Noah Beery, Jr., directed by Howard Hawks

One of the finest westerns ever made, this “monumental, sweeping and powerful” masterpiece (Variety) features impassioned performances, stunning cinematography and adventure on a grand scale. Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift (in his screen debut), Walter Brennan, Harry Carey, Sr. and Noah Beery, Jr., Red River is a hard-hitting, action-packed adventure that captures the grandeur, majesty and danger of the wild American West.Wayne gives “one of the best performances of his career” (Cinebooks) as Tom Dunson, a self-made cattle baron who’ll do anything to protect his way of life. So when plummeting livestock values demand that he drive his herd through thetreacherous Chisholm Trail, Tom proves that he’ll risk anything to reach his destination even his own sanity.

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The Time of Your Life (1948) starring James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris

The Time of Your Life

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The Time of Your Life (1948) starring James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne MorrisThe Time of Your Life (1948) starring James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris

The Time of Your Life is a very interesting, very different movie. It involves a small central cast who sit and watch, and occasionally comment, on the various people who come in and out of a bar. Some people have compared it to the television series Cheers but other than the setting, the two really don’t have anything in common. The Time of Your Life is frankly more like Seinfeld — the comedy that seemingly doesn’t have a plot, and simply showcases the lives of the various characters. If anything, The Time of Your Life is better, because we actually get to see glimpses of the stories of the various secondary characters, which are compelling.  And for other characters — we don’t.

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Road House - her charms paved the way to murderous jealousy! starring Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark

Road House

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Editorial review of Road House (1948) courtesy of Amazon.com

Buy Road House from Amazon.com Road House has acquired a cult as a prime film noir. Certainly the title location is archetypal, a lounge and bowling alley up toward the Canadian border, and Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark make the most of flavorful roles that would qualify them as exemplary noir denizens even if they hadn’t established that elsewhere. Read More »Road House

Key Largo, starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore

Key Largo

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movie review of the classic film Key Largo, where a gangster (Edward G. Robinson) breaks into a hotel during a storm, taking the innkeeper (Lionel Barrymore) and his daughter-in-law (Lauren Bacall) – who’s only hope is the returned G.I. (Humphrey Bogart) who can stand up to the gangster; if he can find his courage again.

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Movie review of A Southern Yankee (1948) starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Brian Donlevy

A Southern Yankee

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Movie review of A Southern Yankee (1948) starring Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Brian Donlevy

Buy from Amazon.com  A Southern Yankee is a very funny movie, set at the tail end of the American Civil War. Red Skelton plays the role of Aubrey Filmore, an inept bellboy at a Northern hotel. He manages to catch €œthe Grey Spider €, a very famous (and dangerous) Southern spy.  

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The Fuller Brush Man (1948), starring Red Skelton, Janet Blair

The Fuller Brush Man [Red Skelton]

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The Fuller Brush Man (1948), starring Red Skelton, Janet Blair

In a nutshell, The Fuller Brush Man is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen.   Red Skelton is at his finest, both in verbal comedy as well as in physical slapstick galore.   The basic plot has Red Skelton playing the part of Red Jones, a well-meaning young man … Who keeps getting fired from every job he’s ever held within three weeks.   The girl he loves, Ann Elliot (played by Janet Blair) refuses his marriage proposal. Until he matures enough to be able to provide for a family.   Red decides to emulate his rival for Ann’s love by becoming a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush company.   Unfortunately, this leads him to be the witness to a murder, with the police and gangsters following him … And why are the bad people interested in one of his hairbrushes?

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