The Great Sinner (1949)

This movie has an amazing cast. I’m going to be pissed if this is bad. Gregory Peck playing a writer? Astounding! Could the opening scene be any more melodramatic? Good God. So…this is a flashback movie with a first-person narrative voiceover. Normally those make me roll my eyes, but since it’s Gregory Peck’s tale, I’ll give it […]

Smart Blonde (1937)

Directed by Frank McDonald. Screenplay by Kenneth Gamet & Don Ryan, from a story by Frederick Nebel. This film begins with Torchy (Glenda Farrell) paying a taxi driver to chase a train down the tracks, so she can ultimately vacate the car and hop aboard the train. Solid. (By the way – this is the first […]

Primrose Path (1940)

Directed by Gregory La Cava (of MY MAN GODFREY fame). What a terrible living situation & family this seems to be! Prostitution, starvation, alcoholism…how dreadful! Henry Travers (“Gramp”) is telling Ginger Rogers to get in his car so he can give her a ride somewhere – normally, I’d say this was a bad idea, but […]