Index of Movie Reviews

Here you can find the film reviews and mini reviews previously published on Via Margutta 51 :)

Oh, sometimes I'm very lazy so I don't immediately add my latests film reviews.

Lists & Compilations

• All my film reviews of 2011...in 2 lines or less
• My top 10 films directed by Mitchell Leisen
• My Top 10 Billy Wilder movies
• The 10 SADDEST old movies (I've watched)
• 5 movies in which the tragedy was caused by chance
• 8 Classic Movies I can watch over and over...
• My Top 10 Average|Bad Movies with Terrific Actors
• My top 5 movies from Grace Kelly

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• 36 hours (1965; George Seaton; James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor)

A

• A foreign affair (1948; Billy Wilder; Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur)
• Anna and the King of Siam (1946; John Cromwell;  Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell)
• Arise, my love [review 1|review 2] (1940; Mitchell Leisen; Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland)
• Avanti! (1972; Billy Wilder; Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills)

B

• Barefoot in the park (1967; Gene Saks; Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer)
• Beloved Infidel (1959; Henry King; Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert)
• Bloodline (1979; Terence Young; Audrey Hepburn,Omar Sharif, James Mason, Romy Schneider)
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Cambell (1968; Melvyn Frank, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford) 

C

• Cactus Flower (1969; Gene Saks; Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau)
• Caged (1950; John Cromwell; Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead)
• Cape Fear (1962; J. Lee Thompson; Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck)
• City streets (1931; Rouben Mamoulian; Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney) 
• Cover Girl (1944; Charles Vidor; Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly)
• Cry Wolf (1947; Peter Godfrey; Barbara Stawyck, Errol Flynn)

D

• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940; Dorothy Arzner; Maureen O'Hara, Lucille Ball, Ralph Bellamy)
• Death takes a holiday (1934; Mitchell Leisen; Fredric March, Evelyn Venable)
• Der blaue Engel (1930; Josef von Sternberg; Marlene Dietrich, Emile Jannings) 
• Dersu Uzala (1975; Akira Kurosawa;  Maksim Munzuk; Yuri Solomin)
• Design for living (1933; Ernst Lubitsch; Gary Cooper, Fredrich March, Miriam Hopkins)
• Dishonored (1931; Joseph Von Sternberg; Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen)
• Doctor in the house (1954; Ralph Thomas; Dick Borgade)
• Dodsworth (1936; William Wyler; Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton)
• Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder; Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray)
• Dragonwyck (1946; Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Jessica Tandy)

E

• Easy living (1937; Mitchell Leisen; Ray Milland, Jean Arthur)
• Escape (1940; Mervy LeRoy; Robert Taylor, Norma Shearer, Alla Nazimova)
• Ever in my heart (1933; Archie Mayo; starring Barbara Stanwyck & Otto Kruger)

F 

• Fury (1936; Fritz Lang; Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney) 

G

• Golden Earrings (1947; Mitchell Leisen; Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland)
• Green Mansions (1959; Mel Ferrer; Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Perkins)

H

• Hands across the table (1935; Mitchell Leisen; Carole Lombard, Fred Macmurray, Ralph Bellamy)
• Heaven Can Wait (1943; Ernst Lubitsch; Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn)
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1956; John Huston; Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr) 
• His Girl Friday  [character studio] (1940; Howard Hawks; Cary Grant, Rosalind Russel)
• Hold back the dawn [review 1| review 2] (1941; Mitchell Leisen; Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Godard) 
• Holiday Affair (1949; Don Hartman; Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh) 

I

• I love you again (1940; W.S. Van Dyke; Myrna Loy, William Powell)
• I married a witch (1942, René Clair; Fredric March, Veronica Lake.) 
• In Name Only (1940; John Cromwell; starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis & Charles Coburn)
• In the good old summertime (1949; Robert Z. Leonard; Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. Sakall) 
• Ivy (1947; Sam Wood; Joan Fontaine, Herbert Marshall)
• I wake up screaming (1941; H. Bruce Humberstone; Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, Betty Grable)
• I wanted wings (1941; Mitchell Leisen; William Holden, Ray Milland, Veronica Lake)

J

• Johny Belinda (1948; Jean Negulesco; Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Agnes Moorehead)
• Julia Misbehaves (1948; Jack Conway; Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Elizabeth Taylor, Cesar Romero)

K

• Kiss and Make-Up (1935; Harlan Thompson; Cary Grant, Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin) 

L

• Lady in the dark (1944; Mitchell Leisen; Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland)
• Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy; Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly.)
• Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964; Jacques Demy; Catharine Denueve, Nino Castelnuovo)
• Letter from a unknown woman (1948, Max Ophüls; Joan Fontaine, Luis Jourdan)
• Love in the afternoon (1957; Billy Wilder;  Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier)

M

• Made for each other (1939; John Cromwell; Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn)
• Man of the World (1931; Richard Wallace; William Powell, Carole Lombard)
• Manpower (1941; Raoul Walsh; Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft)
• Man-Proof (1938; Richard Thorpe; Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon)
• Merrily we go to hell (1932; Dorothy Arzner; Fredrich March, Sylvia Sidney...Cary Grant)
• Midnight [review 1|review 2](1939; Mitchell Leisen;  Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Mary Astor) 
• Mogambo (1953; John Ford; Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly) 
• My reputation (1946; Curtis Bernhardt; Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Eve Arden)

N

• Never say goodbye (1946; James V. Kern; Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Hattie McDaniel,  S.Z. Sakall.)
• Next time we love (1936; Edward H. Griffith; Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart)
• Night and the city (1950; Jules Dassin; Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney)
• No man of her own (1950; Mitchell Leisen; Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund)
• No time for love (1943; Mitchell Leisen; Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray)
• Not so dumb (1930; King Vidor; Marion Davies)

O

• Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942; Leo McCarey; Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers)
• Only Yesterday (1991; Isao Takahata) 

P

• Paris Blues (1961; Martin Ritt; Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong)
• People Will Talk (1951; Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain)

R

• Remember the night (1940; Mitchell Leisen; Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray)
• Romance in Manhattan (1935; Stephens Roberts; Ginger Rogers; Francis Lederer)

S

• Sabrina (1954; Billy Wilder; Audrey Hepburn, William Holden)
• Saratoga Trunk (1945; Sam Wood; Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper)
• Scarlett Street (1945; Fritz Lang; Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett)
• Show people (1928; King Vidor; starring Marion Davies)
• Since You Went Away (1944; John Cromwell; Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Hattie MacDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Walker)
• Sleep my love (1948; Douglas Sirk; Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Robert Cummings)
• Small Town Girl (1936; William Wellman; Robert Taylor, Janet Gaynor, Jimmy Stewart)
• Some like it hot  (1959; Billy Wilder; Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe)
• Son of Fury, the story of Benjamin Blake (1942; John Cromwell; Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney) 
• So proudly we hail! (1943; Mark Sandrich; Claudette Colbert, Paulette Godard, Veronica Lake)
• Street scene (1931; King Vidor; Sylvia Sidney) 
• Sunset Blvd. (1950; Billy Wilder; Gloria Swanson, William Holden)
• Swing high, swing low (1937; Mitchell Leisen; Fred MacMurray, Carole Lombard)

T

• Take a letter, darling (1942; Mitchell Leisen; Fred Macmurray, Rosalind Russell)
• Tarzan and his mate (1934; W. S. Van Dyke; Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan)
• Tarzan The Ape Man (1932; W. S. Van Dyke; Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan)
• Tea for two (1950; David Butler; Doris Day, S. Z. Sakall)
• Tender Comrade (1945; Edward Dmytryk; Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Kim Hunter)
• That darn cat! (1965; Robert Stevenson; Hayley Mills, Dean Jones) 
• That Hamilton Woman (1941; Alexander Korda; Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier)
• The Apartment (1960; Billy Wilder;  Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine, Fred MacMurray)
• The Bank Dick (1940; Edward F. Cline; W.C. Field, Una Merkel)
• The bigamist (1953; Ida Lupino; Ida Lupino, Joan Fontaine, Edmund Gwen)
• The Black Swan (1942; Henry King; Maureen O'Hara, Tyrone Power)
• The Crimson Pirate (1952; Robert Siodmak; Burt Lancaster) 
• The egg and I (1947; Chester Erskine; Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray)
• The flame and the arrow (1950; Jacques Torneur; Burt Lancaster, Viriginia Mayo) 
• The Fly (1958; Kurt Neumann; David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price)
• The fountainhead [part 1|part 2] (1949; King Vidor; Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal)
• The golden arrow (1936; Alfred Green; Bette Davis, George Brent)
• The great race (1965; Blake Edwards; Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon) 
• The hunchback of Notre Dame (1939; William Dieterle; Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara)
• The Italian Job (1969; Peter Collinson; Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill)
• The King and I (1956; Walter Lang; : Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner)
• The lady is willing (1942; Mitchell Leisen; Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray)
• The land before time (1988) 
• The Lost Weekend (1945; Billy Wilder; Ray Milland, Jane Wyman)
• The mating season (1951; Mitchell Leisen; Gene Tierney, John Lund, Thelma Ritter, Miriam Hopkins)
• The moon spinners (1964; James Neilson; Hayley Mills, Elli Wallach)
• The Night of the Iguana (1964; John Huston; Ava Gardner, Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr)
• Three on a match (1932; Mervyn LeRoy; Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis...Humphrey Bogart)
• The Patsy (1928; King Vidor; starring Marion Davies)
• The princess and the pirate (1944; Davis Butler; Virginia Mayo, Bob Hope)
• The proud and the profane (1956; George Seaton; William Holden, Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter)
• The Mark of Zorro (1940; Rouben Mamoulian; Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone)
• The naked jungle (1954; Byron Haskin; Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker) 
• The painted veil (1934; Richard Boleslawski; Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall)
• The parent trap (1961; David Swift; Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Una Merkel)
• The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! (1966; Norman Jewison; Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Eva Marie Saint)
• The Scarlett Empress (1934; Joseph Von Sternberg; Marlene Dietrich)
• The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980; John Erman; Tony Curtis)
• The Sea Hawk (1940; Michael Curtiz; Errol Flynn)
• The secret life of Walter Mitty (1947; Norman McLeod; Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo)
• The Sundowners (1960; Fred Zinneman; Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov) 
• The thief of Bagdad (1940; Alexander Korda; John Justin, Conrad Veidt; Sabu) 
• The three lives of Thomasina (1964; Don Chaffey; Karine Dotrice, Mathew Garber)
• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936; Henry Hathaway; Fred Macmurray, Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney) 
• The wedding night (1935; King Vidor; Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy)
• The whole town is talking (1935; John Ford; Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur)
• Third Finger, Left Hand (1940; Robert Z. Leonard; Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas)
• Thirty Day Princess (1934; Marion Gering; Cary Grant, Sylvia Sidney) 
• This above all (1942; Anatole Litvak; Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine)
• To each his own (1946; Mitchell Leisen; Olivia de Havilland, John Lund)
• Topper (1937; Norman Z. McLeod; Cary Grant , Constance Bennett, Roland Young) 
• Torn Curtain (1966; Alfred Hitchcock; Paul Newman, Julie Andrews)
• Two faced woman (1941; George Cukor; Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett)
• Two for the road (1967; Stanley Donen; Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney) 

U

• Undercurrent (1946; Vincente Minnelli; Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum)
• Unfaithfully yours (1948; Preston Sturges; Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell)

W

• Way of a gaucho (1952; Jacques Torneur; Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney)
• Weekend at the Waldorf (1945; Robert Z. Leonard; Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Lana Turner)
• What a way to go! (1964; J. Lee Thompson; Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dick Van Dyke, Gene Kelly)
• White Heat (1949; Raoul Walsh; James Cagney, Virginia Mayo)
• Witness for the prosecution (1957; Billy Wilder; Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power)

Y 

• You only live once (1937; Fritz Lang; Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda) 
• You only live twice (1967; Lewis Gilbert; Sean Connery)