I feel like it's low odds that after 34 Donald Duck starring shorts my last two would be the worst of the bunch, and though they have their fans, that is the way I'm feeling at the moment. On the positive end this one has Billy Bletcher's Pete character (listed as Pierre here) but on the other end, there's nothing else about it I can really point to as something I really liked. Donald's a vagabond who while wandering down…
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Dark Command 1940
Seeing the Republic Pictures banner before the movie lowered my expectations, but it would seem not enough, though I feel this has a generally solid reputation. Raoul Walsh could do action like quite possibly no one else at the time, and it's fun seeing Walter Pidgeon as a villain, as he's generally one of the most amiable screen presences in Hollywood history, but there's a lot going on here, and it feels like the old Hollywood both-sides-itis, as the movie…
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Bachelor Mother 1939
Only in a screwball comedy could a woman recently fired from her job, after a case of mistaken identity ending up with an unwanted adoption, and dating her boss, feel like a basic plot.
As much as it's not perfect I ended up loving Bachelor Mother, as it's right up my alley. I always adore Ginger Rogers, she's great again in the lead here. David Niven is well cast, as he's able to play both the irresponsible cad who's heir…
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The Woman on Pier 13 1949
Over the course of this movie's 72 minute runtime, Nan Collins (Laraine Day) will find out that, as the alternate title suggests, she has just married a communist. As we soon find out, Brad Collins (Robert Ryan) had been a young go-getter just out of college during the Depression, when unable to find work he was seduced by the Communist Party, before finding out it wasn't for him and running off to San Francisco where he became a productive member…
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