You Can’t Take It With You
In You Can’t Take It With You, Lionel Barrymore is the eccentric patriarch. He retired from the rat race & encourages people to follow their dreams. But another patriarch has other plans.
You Can’t Take It With YouIt’s a Wonderful Life
Movie review of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.
It’s a Wonderful Life is a wonderful film, and a perennial classic at Christmas time. It’s the story of a man named George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) at the end of his rope. He’s about to commit suicide. He feels that his life has been worthless. An angel named Clarence shows him what the world would have been like if he hadn’t been born. He inspires George to not give up, and George returns to his family – on Christmas Eve. Only to find out just how much he’s worth to his community.
Man Made Monster
Man Made Monster (1941), starring Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr.
In Man Made Monster, a mad scientist transforms a carnival performer into a murderous monster.
The Raven (1935)
The Raven (1935), starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff
Synopsis of The Raven
A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Bela Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life of his daughter. She’s a dancer , crippled and brain-damaged in an auto wreck. Vollin restores her completely. But he also envisions her as his “Lenore”. He then cooks up a scheme to kidnap the woman and torture and kill her fiancee and father in his Poe-inspired dungeon. To do his dirty work, Vollin recruits a wanted criminal (Boris Karloff). He turns him into a hideous monster to guarantee his subservience.
The Raven (1935)