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The Narrow Margin 1952
Directed by Richard Fleischer (yes, the same guy who would go on to direct Soylent Green), The Narrow Margin is a straight-up, no-frills noir thriller—clocking in at just over an hour and wasting zero time. It’s pure, pulpy economy: a cop, a witness, a train, and a pack of killers. That’s it. That’s the movie. And it rules.
Charles McGraw plays the tough, gravel-voiced cop tasked with escorting Marie Windsor’s sharp-tongued gangster widow across the country on a train, dodging…
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My Favorite Wife 1940
Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, and Gail Patrick—a cast like this should guarantee a screwball classic, and My Favorite Wife does have its moments. It’s a light, entertaining romantic farce with a great premise: Grant’s character, believing his wife (Dunne) has been lost at sea for seven years, remarries—only for her to return right as he’s about to go on his honeymoon. To complicate things, she wasn’t stranded alone—she spent those years with Randolph Scott, a more traditionally "manly"…
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The Mortal Storm 1940
An important film with several evocative sequences depicting the rise of fascism in 1930s Germany.
Sometimes it does drift into melodramatic territory which counteracts the films very important message a little and I think has kept it out of popular consciousness.
Still, for a message picture from 1940 it feels eerily relevant and I wish it was more well known.
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The Crow 1994
Top rate production design with some good effects and iconic moments from Brandon Lee get routinely undercut by consistently terrible editing and so-so cinematography. Maybe the movie was filmed well, cause there are a lot of fantastic shots, but the movie is edited so haphazardly without any care given to the geography of the action scenes that it ultimately becomes tedious even during its best moments.
Maybe I could overlook the bad editing if the script excelled but it’s mostly routine stuff with a few good lines here and there.
2.5/5
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