Take The City And Run

Directed by John Ford
Olivia Dandridge: You don’t have to say it, Captain. I know all this is because of me… because I wanted to see the West… because I wasn’t, I wasn’t “Army” enough to stay the winter.
Captain Nathan Brittles: You’re not quite “Army” yet, miss… or you’d know never to apologize… it’s a sign […]

Directed by Tay Garnett
A pretty decent noir tale with an extremely cynical view of love and hate and how fickle people can be in relationships. Lana Turner and John Garfield seem capable of flipping the way they feel about each other like a coin. Maybe, in the end, the screenplay offers a few too many […]

Directed by Tex Avery
Screwball Squirrel is basically an MGM Bugs Bunny clone, and it shows in this, his first appearance, in which he torments Meathead the dog, who he goads into chasing him. But as derivative as it is, there really are some interesting things done in terms of poking fun at the whole cartoon […]

Directed by Will Jason
Not a lot to this. Star/writer Robert Benchley is decent enough, but there’s not much in the way of payoff here.
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Directed by Richard Thorpe
This is the first Thin Man picture that neither W.S. Van Dyke nor Dashiell Hammett had any part in creating, and this fifth installment in the series suffers for it, but, even after eleven years, William Powell and Myrna Loy still have chemistry as Nick and Nora Charles. And their chemistry goes […]