Directed by Robert Milton. Story by Margaret Ayer Barnes, adaptation by Bradley King (oh, lord – she’s the one who wrote WEARY RIVER (1929))(admittedly, though…it’s a bit unfair to lump too much criticism on her for that film, since it was so early in the Sound Era, and scripts based around spoken-narrative storytelling played quite […]
Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Scenario by George Randolph Chester, from the story “The Summons” by George Pattullo. Silent. First thing’s first – this is a miracle film, you guys. It was considered lost for 97 years before a copy of it was found in the Chicago Film Archives, misfiled (as TCM’s Jacqueline Stewart relates) with […]
Directed by Clark Johnson. Screenplay by David McKenna & David Ayer, story by Jim McClain & Ron Mita. Characters created by Robert Hamner. Now…I know – this is a rather atypical movie for me to be watching and/or posting about. Here’s the deal, though – while spending the last 2-ish months deeply contemplating THE BANSHEES OF […]
Directed by Jack Conway. Screenplay by Sam & Bella Spewack (yes – they were a married-couple writing team, who wrote such things as MOVE OVER DARLING (1963), WEEKEND AT THE WALDORF (1945), & the story for MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940), for which they received an Oscar nomination), from the story “Repeal” by Charles Francis Coe. […]
Directed by Raoul Walsh. Screenplay by Stephen Longstreet & Harriet Frank Jr., from a novel by Longstreet. This was Frank Jr.’s first screenwriting credit on a feature film – she’d of course go on to co-write the screenplays of such movies as THE LONG, HOT SUMMER (1958), HUD (1963), NORMA RAE (1979), & MURPHY’S ROMANCE […]
Written & directed by Martin McDonagh. It’s taken me awhile to write this post, because this is a complicated film to talk about – and articulating the feeling with which it leaves you seems nearly impossible, based on the conflicting layers of emotions provoked by the fates of all the characters, & the fact that […]
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