Movie Year Director Actor Actor Ranking They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray Cathy O’Donnell Farley Granger 3 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk Jane Wyman Rock Hudson 24 Cane River 1982 Horace B. Jenkins Richard Romain Tommye Myrick 54 My Best Girl 1927 Sam Taylor Mary Pickford Charles Rogers 62 The Crimson Kimono… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Passions: Society Gets in the Way Cliché
I’m joining in the spirit of the year-in-review post, even though the way I watch movies isn’t really conducive to the kind of list that one usually sees at the end of the year. (Incidentally, if you happen to be a recent music aficionado, friend of the blog Matt will have his year-end list of… Read More 2018 Year-End Review: Fifty Movies
Dir. Nicholas Ray. Starring Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, Howard Da Silva A woman is like a dog, Keechie (O’Donnell) tells Bowie (Granger) one night. I knew a dog who lost his master and refused to eat food from anyone else’s hand, would let no one pet him. It is a humiliating comparison, and Keechie is… Read More They Live by Night (1948)
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman Hitchcock doesn’t waste any time getting to the plot in this movie, which is a delectable little truffle among Hitchcock’s movie scenarios. Among his better, or at least his most famous movies, this rush to get to the meat of it is a little unusual.… Read More Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Jimmy Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger The idea behind Rope is a perfectly scrumptious one for a film; a pair of handsome young men, Brandon (Dall) and Phillip (Granger), decide to kill one of their friends for the thrill of it and then host a party immediately after, with food served from atop… Read More Rope (1948)
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