Happy Birthday to Bradley Cooper, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Hayao Miyazaki, Jane Wyman, George Reeves, Pamela Sue Martin, Roger Spottiswoode, Charlie Rose and A. Edward Sutherland! Recently (December 18th), I saw two classic American films, in Tarzan Triumphs (William Thiele, 1943; 8/10) and my Curtain Call, or best film of the day, It Happened on 5th Avenue (Roy Del Ruth, 1947; 9/10), as well as a featurette The Story of Native Land (unknown, 2007; 7/10) and two Season One episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (both 1955; 8/10): Dont Come Back Alive (Robert Stevenson) and Into Thin Air (Don Medford). Tarzan Triumphs works quite well as an entertaining propaganda film, paralleling isolationism (Tarzan/the USA) in the face of Nazism, as the Germans invade the African jungle and want to take over its people and resources...It Happened on Fifth Avenue is a very charming Christmas screwball comedy, in which a homeless man takes over a mansion abandoned each winter when the home owner, the second richest man in the world, goes to his southern winter home. Its definitely one of the better ones and not to be missed in the Yuletide season. Pamela Sue Martin, the beautiful actress whos 62 today, deserves my Film Club salute, and my Five Stars, for cinematic brilliance, are: --Actor: Alan Hale Jr. (It Happened on 5th Avenue) --Actress: Gale Storm (It Happened on 5th Avenue) --Director: Roy Del Ruth (It Happened on 5th Avenue) --Cinematography: Henry Sharp (It Happened on 5th Avenue) --Soundtrack: Stanley Wilson (both Dont Come Back Alive and Into Thin Air). Tonight: Probably Gunga Din (George Stevens, 1939), Ride em Cowboy (Arthur Lubin, 1942) and a rewatch of The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, 1968). All the best, and keep warm, from Film Club! =)
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:33:01 +0000
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