OBPC #14: How Green Was My Valley, 1941
Rating: 2½ stars (out of 4) How Green Was My Valley (1941): Dir. John Ford. Written by: Philip Dunne. Based upon the novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn. Starring: Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon, […]
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REVIEW: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rating: 4 stars (out of 4) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Directed by Benh Zeitlin. Written by: Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin. Based on the play “Juicy and Delicious” by Alibar. Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight […]
OBPC #13: Rebecca, 1940
Rating: 3½ stars (out of 4) Rebecca (1940): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Written by: Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison, from an adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan. Based upon the novel of the same […]
OBPC #12: Gone with the Wind, 1939
Rating: 2½ stars (out of 4) Gone with the Wind (1939): Directed by Victor Fleming, with contributions by George Cukor and Sam Wood. Written by: Sidney Howard, with contributions by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, […]
OBPC #11: You Can’t Take It with You, 1938
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) You Can’t Take It with You (1938): Dir. Frank Capra. Written by: Robert Riskin. Based upon the play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. […]
OBPC #10: The Life of Emile Zola, 1937
Rating: 2½ stars (out of 4) The Life of Emile Zola (1937): Dir. William Dieterle. Written by: Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, and Geza Herczeg, from a story by Herald and Herczeg. Based upon the […]
OBPC #9: The Great Ziegfeld, 1936
Rating: 1½ stars (out of 4) The Great Ziegfeld (1936): Dir. Robert Z. Leonard. Written by: William Anthony McGuire. Starring: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, Frank Morgan, and Fannie Brice. Unrated. Running time: 176 […]
OBPC #8: Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935
Rating: 3 stars (out of 4) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935): Dir. Frank Lloyd. Written by: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, and Carey Wilson. Based upon the novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff and […]
OBPC #7: It Happened One Night, 1934
Rating: 3½ stars (out of 4) It Happened One Night (1934): Dir. Frank Capra. Written by: Robert Riskin. Based upon the short story “Night Bus” by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter […]
OBPC #6: Cavalcade, 1933
Rating: 1½ stars (out of 4) Cavalcade (1933): Dir. Frank Lloyd. Written by: Reginald Berkeley, with continuity by Sonya Levien. Based upon the play of the same name by Noël Coward. Starring: Diana Wynard, Clive […]