I stayed with it to the 3rd or 4th episode and was pretty pleased. Then they pulled a "hey PSYCHE! We lied to you! You fell for it!" moment that ruined the entire show. Turned it off and didn't watch one more minute. At that moment, I realized I'd been had by an untalented group of lightweights who wrote the stunningly bad plot.
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4 Reviews
One More Tomorrow
(1946)
This was way too long, boring and disjointed
12 February 2018
I'm giving this one star to even out the current 6.5 rating it definitely does not deserve. Maybe Dennis Morgan fans came here and rated - and to his credit - Dennis Morgan carried this move,along with the minor role of the great actor Jack Carson. This screenplay should have been flushed down the toilet. It's a rewrite of The Animal Kingdom from 1932 with Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy and Ann Harding. Ann Sheridan does the Harding part here - and Ann Sheridan does a HORRIBLE job. It's like watching paint dry. Ann Harding was a "laid back" actress, but she conveyed her passion from the screen in a tremendous and unprecedented way. Maybe somebody told Sheridan "be laid back like Harding was" and it failed, I don't know. But boy nothing can beat the sexual manipulation that played such a large part in the 1932 pre-code original , nor the interplay between Howard, Loy and Harding. This movie was way too long - was disjointed - the "liberal" newspaper part of the plot doesn't play well today - the paper seems like it's supposed to be a kind of Washington Post - which most Americans hate as fake news now. And was Sheridan a photographer? Because she suddenly became a writer at the end of this movie! Sheridan's friend was played by Jane Wyman - another great supporting part that was better than the main actors - but she disappeared in the film like she'd fallen down an open sewer grate. I only watched this to see if they brought all the loose, poorly written threads together for the same ending line as Animal Kingdom - and they did. Don't waste your time on this one - watch 1932's The Animal Kingdom!
My Brother Jonathan
(1948)
Surprisingly good movie
2 May 2016
Ran across it by accident. Excellent performances, great plot, learned some historical stuff to boot. Great old drama with a tissue needed now and then but more dramatic and captivating than depressing. Good for a rainy night. Nice to see one of the first performances by Leslie Howard's son Ronald, who went on to do a TV series of Sherlock Holmes. There is some great medical background to be learned in this movie, as well as the conditions in hospitals in the early Twentieth Century. Some great lines about WWI also, and some heartwarming parts that make it endearing. It is a story of two brothers whose familial relationship - trials and tribulations - are the same as many through the centuries.
Dancing on the Moon
(1935)
Love this!
21 August 2009
I saw this cartoon before work many years ago on a classic movie channel. The music and lyrics stayed in my head for years as I desperately searched for it. I didn't know what it was or who Max Fleischer was. I now own his whole collection. For early cartoon buffs, this is a delight! What an artist Fleischer was! I would recommend the entire collection to anyone who enjoys this cartoon. So much better than the technologically advanced but flat, boring cartoons of today! These do indeed take you to "Dreamland." On a warm night, when the moon is full, you can still see the little rocket taking off, for a night of fun and frolic way up there. Go ahead... buy your ticket.
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