#Douglass Dumbrille

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The Frozen Ghost (1944)

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The Albertina Rasch Dancers with Harriet Hoctor in the Ballet of the King number in The Three Musketeers, a musical based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas père. It opened at the Lyric Theater on March 13, 1928, and ran for 318 performances. William Anthony McGuire adapted the book for the stage; music was by Rudolf Friml and lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey. Florenz Ziegfeld was the producer. The show starred Dennis King, Douglass Dumbrille, Reginald Owen, and Vivienne Segal.

Photo: White Studio via Songbook1

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A Millionaire for Christy

A Millionaire for Christy (1951), starring Fred MacMurray, Eleanor Parker, Kay Buckley, Richard Carlson Synopsis of A Millionaire for Christy This hilarious comedy gave Fred MacMurray a chance to show his comedic chops as Peter, a radio personality who is told he’s just inherited two million dollars by a gold-digging secretary. Continue reading Untitled

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Crime and Punishment (1935) Josef von Sternberg

October 7th 2022

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The Frozen Ghost (1945)

"I've got a confession to make to you. I never did believe in your so-called hypnotic powers."

"That's a strange statement, coming from you."

"Oh, now wait, don't misunderstand me, I think you're terrific. That is, you put on a wonderful act. I just never asked you how you did it."

"But I was born with that power."

"Sure. And I was born in Missouri."

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Films Watched in 2023: 74. Lost in a Harem (1944) - Dir. Charles Reisner

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Bad movie I have Son of Paleface 1952

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Republic Pictures Horror Collection will be released on May 21 via Kino Lorber. The two-disc set features four horror films produced by Republic Pictures: The Lady and the Monster, The Phantom Speaks, The Catman of Paris, and Valley of the Zombies.

1944's The Lady and the Monster is directed by George Sherman and written by Dane Lussier and Frederick Kohner, based on Curt Siodmak's 1942 novel Donovan's Brain. Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, and Erich von Stroheim star.

1945's The Phantom Speaks is directed by John English and written by John K. Butler. Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, and Jonathan Hale star.

1946's The Catman of Paris is directed by Lesley Selander and written by Sherman L. Lowe. Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglass Dumbrille, Gerald Mohr, and Fritz Feld star.

1946's Valley of the Zombies is directed by Philip Ford and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. Robert Livingston, Adrian Booth, Ian Keith, Thomas E. Jackson, Charles Trowbridge, and Earle Hodgins star.

All four films have been have been scanned in 4K by Paramount Pictures. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

The Lady and the Monster audio commentary by film historian Stephen Bissette (new)

The Phantom Speaks audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas

The Catman of Paris audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)

Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)

Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas

The Lady and the Monster interview with film historians Tim Lucas and Steven Bissette

In The Lady and the Monster, a scientist (Erich von Stroheim) and his two assistants (Vera Hruba Ralston, Richard Arlen) keep a dead criminal's brain alive. In The Phantom Speaks, the vengeful spirit of an executed killer takes possession of a scientist to take revenge on those who wronged him, and a newspaper reporter becomes suspicious. In The Catman of Paris, an amnesiac Frenchman (Carl Esmond) blames himself for deeds done with the mark of a beast. In Valley of the Zombies, a woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.

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The Frozen Ghost (1944)

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Jean Arthur and Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936) Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, H.B. Warner, Ruth Donnelly, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Walter Catlett, John Wray, Emma Dunn. Screenplay: Robert Riskin, based on a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. Cinematography: Joseph Walker. Art direction: Stephen Goosson. Film editing: Gene Havlick. Music: Howard Jackson Frank Capra's perennially popular Mr. Deeds Goes to Town currently has an 7.8 score on IMDb and an 91% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. So let me cavil a little bit about its psychological dishonesty, namely the scene in which Deeds, engagingly played by Gary Cooper, is subjected to a sanity hearing because of his attempt to give away to distressed farmers the $20 million he has inherited -- a scheme that economically speaking doesn't bear much close scrutiny. Capra (and Robert Riskin, who as writer must bear his share of blame) brings on an "expert," a caricature Viennese psychiatrist, who explains that Deeds suffers from "manic depression," the now-discarded term for bipolar disorder, and exhibits a peaks-and-valleys chart of Deeds's mood swings. It's pretty clear that Capra and Riskin want us to regard this testimony as quackery. But anyone who has dealt with bipolarity, either first-hand or with family or friends, can see the element of truth in the diagnosis. We don't know enough about Deeds's daily life in Mandrake Falls, Vt., where, as the town's Faulkner sisters testify, everyone is "pixilated" but them, to give a confident diagnosis that Deeds is in fact bipolar, and the attempt to use the diagnosis as a smear is reprehensible. But Deeds's decision to refuse legal council at the hearing is the act of someone who really is depressed, and while we are supposed to dismiss as chicanery the attempt to classify his eccentricities -- playing the tuba, sliding down banisters, chasing firetrucks, feeding doughnuts to a horse, and above all wanting to give away his money -- as manic behavior, there's a grain of truth there. Moreover, Deeds does in fact exhibit violent tendencies: witness his punching out the poets who mock his greeting-card verses -- who beats up poets? -- and his assaulting the lawyers at the trial. Capra intends his film as a valorization of small-town virtues against city cynicism, but even that doesn't bear much close scrutiny, especially after the more critical looks at small town life in Sinclair Lewis's Main Street or Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. It has always struck me that Capra was the most empty-headed of the great American directors, making films that annihilate thought, or at least anesthetize it. I like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town more than most Capra films: At its best it's lively and funny, but its worst is pretty annoying and even pernicious stuff.

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Douglass Dumbrille and Errol Flynn star in Uncertain Glory (Saboteur Sans Gloire), 1944.

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Harold Teen (The Dancing Fool) (1934) Murray Roth

April 14th 2024

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King of the Jungle 1933 H Bruce Humberstone, Max Marcin, Buster Crabbe,..

King of the Jungle is a 1933 American pre-Code adventure film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and Max Marcin and written by Charles Thurley Stoneham, Max Marcin, Fred Niblo, Jr. and Philip Wylie. The film stars Buster Crabbe, Frances Dee, Sidney Toler, Nydia Westman, Robert Barrat, Irving Pichel and Douglass Dumbrille.[1][2] The film was released on March 10, 1933, by Paramount Pictures. Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel. .

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A Life at Stake (1955) / Drama, Film Noir / Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille