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Finch wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:50 pm Queen Christina, Sea Hawk, Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond and Air Force plus the aforementioned Lewtons are my wanted still-to-happen upgrades.

Finch wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 6:09 pm Oooh! That completely slipped past me. Thank you! I don't think they've done Captain Blood yet though?

FrauBlucher wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:41 am bluray.com.... Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces takes a soft left turn during its final stretch, pushing hard for Rocky's death-bed redemption as Jerry pleads with him to find God mere moments before execution. The reason? Those troubled kids, who still idolize the scrappy outlaw, might not follow in his wavering footsteps. It's a sappy swerve that, while not as jaw-droppingly awful as the one in San Francisco (also released during the Hays Code's infancy, just two years prior), still feels like further melodramatic mistreatment of Cagney's character. (And that angelic coda? Gag me with a spoon.) Even so, it's at least not too terribly unexpected and, as part of an otherwise magnetic film packed with fantastic one-liners, great action, and solid performances, one wrong turn obviously can't sink the ship. But had it been made, say, five years earlier, Angels with Dirty Faces would be an absolute classic of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Rayon Vert wrote: Sun Aug 25, 2019 4:14 amThe Three Musketeers (Sidney 1948). Gene Kelly went straight from The Pirate to playing another swashbuckling role here, this time non-musical. The way he romantically pounces on June Allyson is eerily similar to what he did with Judy Garland in the preceding film. His athleticism makes him a good candidate for this type of role, and he shows it in a pretty good extended sword fight scene early in the film. The first half-hour or so threatens some amount of middling fun, but then that dissipates and just becomes this absolutely bland, style-less MGM Technicolor studio slop. An impressive cast, including also Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury and Vincent Price as Richelieu, are just absolutely wasted – everybody, including Kelly, is lost in this dull snoozefest.