Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Starring: Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor Directed by: Edward Buzzell Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Rudolph Tobler (Frank Morgan) is a soap company tycoon who enters his own slogan contest and wins a two week trip to the Alps where he goes incognito with the […]
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Wings of the Morning (1937)
New World Pictures Ltd. Starring: Henry Fonda, Annabella, Leslie Banks Directed by: Harold D. Schuster Synopsis: A beautiful gypsy named Marie (Annabella) marries an Irish lord but is shunned as a true heir to his estate upon his sudden death. Years later she returns with her granddaughter, Maria (also played by Annabella) to race their horse Wings of […]
Footlight Parade (1933)
Warner Bros. Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Frank McHugh Directed by: Lloyd Bacon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Stage musicals producer Chester Kent (James Cagney) sees talking pictures slowly erode his audience, so he decides to produce live prologues for movie houses and has to continually come up […]
Bewitched – “Ling Ling”
Original Air Date: February 11, 1965 Starring: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead Directed by: David McDearmon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) tries to help Darrin (Dick York) with one of his ad campaigns by changing a Siamese cat into the beautiful Oriental woman which the agency […]
The Lost Dream (1949)
Famous Studios Starring: Mae Questel, Jackson Beck Directed by: Bill Tytla Synopsis: Little Audrey (voiced by Mae Questel) helps a little Lost Dream (voiced by Jackson Beck) find his way back to Dream Land but her curiosity may unleash a terrible nightmare. Kitty Cameo: As the Lost Dream shows Audrey around Dream Land he pauses to point out a […]
One Terrible Day (1922)
Hal Roach Studios Starring: Ernest Morrison, Mickey Daniels, Jackie Condon Directed by: Robert F. McGowan, Tom McNamara Synopsis: A society matron wants to get her name and picture in the society pages and decides to host a picnic for children, not counting on the fact that the rambunctuous gang of kids may be too much for her and […]
The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Warner Bros. Starring: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, George Rosener Directed by: William McGann Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A Perry Mason film adaptation of the original story The Case of the Caretaker’s Cat. Perry Mason (Ricardo Cortez) is called by an eccentric elderly millionaire to change his will […]
Obsession (1949)
Also known as: The Hidden Room Independent Sovereign Films Starring: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray Directed by: Edward Dmytryk Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: British psychiatrist Dr. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) decides to take action when he finds out his philandering wife Storm (Sally Gray) is seeing an […]
6 Day Bike Rider (1934)
First National Productions Starring: Joe E. Brown, Maxine Doyle, Frank McHugh Directed by: Lloyd Bacon Synopsis: Wilfred Simpson (Joe E. Brown) is a small-town guy who gets frustrated when his sweetheart falls for a suave bicycle trick rider. He decides to show her up by leaving town and making something of himself and enters a six-day bicycle race. […]
The Great Man Votes (1939)
RKO Radio Pictures Starring: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler Directed by: Garson Kanin Synopsis: Educated but alcoholic widower Gregory Vance (John Barrymore) raises his children Donald (Peter Holden) and Joan (Virginia Wiedler) as best he can. His lack of ambition may lead to his children being taken away until an unusual circumstance gives him the opportunity to […]