Search results
Hace 3 días · Film Battleground (1949) Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary pushed Battleground into the studio’s schedule against Louis Mayer’s protests. The movie was a hit, marking the decline of Mayer’s power. The film focuses on the battles of Bastogne and the Bulge in WWII, with James Whitmore stealing the show as the battle-hardened sergeant.
Although Kubrick's previous film The Killing had failed at the box office, it had managed to land on several critical top-ten lists for the year. Dore Schary, then head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, liked the film and hired Kubrick and Harris to develop film stories from MGM's slush pile of scripts and purchased novels.
Hace 2 días · Susan Granger’s review of “Master Gardener” (Magnolia Pictures) If you’re a Paul Schrader fan, perhaps you missed the dramatic thriller “Master Gardener” the third in his ‘God’s Lonely Man’ trilogy that started with “First Reformed” (2022) and continued with “The Card Counter” (2021). Obs
Hace 5 días · A young King and a thief team up to win back the throne from the wicked vizier Jaffar. Sabu is our titular thief, Rex Ingram (great in The Green Pastures) is the Djinn, everyone else is a white man wearing various shades of tanner.I say that as an "OK, this is what it is, let's deal with it" warning, because if you can get past that - and, indeed, if you're a regular viewer of pre-2000s cinema ...
Hace 1 día · William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man.He was named the seventh greatest male movie star of classic American cinema by the American Film Institute.
Hace 2 días · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
Hace 4 días · Written by Dore Schary, the play was inspired by Roosevelt's husband, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his experience living with polio.
