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  The Long Riders 1980

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Feb 2025

  Over the last few years, I have watched quite a few movies that touched on the James-Younger gang and its aftermath. This one is the most all-encompassing, starting way at the beginning and ending after Jesse James is killed and Frank James surrenders and is taken off to jail. I think this is probably more accurate than most of the earlier ones I have seen, and has the added attraction of using brothers for the four sets of brothers in…

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  The Thirty Nine Steps 1978

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Band of Angels 1957

  ★★½ Watched 05 Sep 2019

  Clark Gable's Rhett Butler baggage doesn't help this Civil War era drama. Sidney Poitier plays his head slave and Yvonne DeCarlo plays the woman brought up as white by her plantation owner father, only to discover upon his death that her mother was a slave and she is now considered part of her father's estate. Probably still a little light on the brutality of slavery but probably too groundbreaking for the time.

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  Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949

  ★★★½ Watched 04 May 2017

  Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly are turn of the century baseball players who do vaudeville during the off-season (which actually was fairly common). The team is the defending world champions and are getting ready for a new season when the ownership of the team is inherited by Esther Williams, who manages to get in one musical swimming number early in the film, before being stuck in roaring nineties gowns the rest of the film. Of course, the team doesn't want…

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