Old Acquaintance

The legendary Bette Davis stars in this 1943 tale of friendship, deceit, devotion and table turned.

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf,Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker ... see more

Journalist Steve O'Malley is writing a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. The man's widow Christine cooperates, and Steve learns that she could have warned him of the bridge but chose not to...

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Unrated, 1 hr. 41 min.
Directed by: George Cukor
Release Date: Dec 01, 1942
DVD Release Date: Oct 23, 1991

IN HER SHOES

Cameron Diaz plays a flighty, irresponsible sibling to a successful, but very lonely attorney sister.  The rivalry and subsequent revelations are insightful.  The film is worth watching to the very end.  Don't give up on it during the seedy parts.

I rate this an "R"

The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit

Truth is stranger than fiction in this tale of a conflicted heart.  It will be worth your while to watch this
 B & W film to the end.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2087913241/

(Watched in October, 2010)

TROUBEL ALONG THE WAY (John Wayne, Donna Reed) 1953

Trouble Along the Way, a John Wayne movie even John Wayne fans have tended to skip, is an intriguingly complicated entertainment that gets more interesting from reel to reel. The premise scarcely sounds like prime Duke material: Former big-time football coach with an ugly divorce behind him and a little daughter to look out for takes a job at a venerable Catholic college in danger of being shut down. The title nudgingly recalls the sentimental classic Going My Way, with school administrator Charles Coburn replacing Barry Fitzgerald in the doddering-but-sly priest role and Wayne as a nonclerical (and non-singing) substitute for Bing Crosby. In addition to the diocesan politics dooming the College of St. Anthony's, the plot is complicated by ex-wife Marie Windsor's vicious efforts to regain custody of daughter Sherry Jackson; that sparks a spiky ambivalence between social worker Donna Reed and disreputable papa Wayne, who pretty much lives out of a bar where he runs his latterday business--as a bookie.

The script was the work of future Bob Hope writers Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose, and between them and director Michael Curtiz--nearing the end of his long tenure at Warner Bros.--they scuff up Wayne's heroic image in interesting ways. To turn St. Anthony's into a winning football team overnight, Wayne indulges in some outright larceny and extortion; there's even a sly throwaway joke likening his profit-sharing plan for his co-conspirators to a form of "socialism." Instead of the anticipated big-game climax with the St. Anthony's underdogs victorious, the movie veers toward a finale in which several "happy endings" are put on hold till some point in the future. For his part, Wayne gets to deliver more syncopated dialogue than usual, and seems both refreshed and startled by the experience. --( synopsis by Richard T. Jameson)