r/classicfilms

Earlier tonight, I saw the film THE HOUSE ACROSS THE BAY. It’s about this gangster Steve who ends up falling in love with Brenda, a nightclub singer. He ends up doing 10 years in Alcatraz due to his criminal activity.

Devastated, she moves to California to be near Alcatraz. Steve’s lawyer, Slant, ends up tricking them both and was instrumental in putting Steve away (and partially because he also is in love with Brenda), leaving them nearly broke.

Brenda ends up befriending some of the other “prison wives” who regularly visit their men. Long story short, she’s back to singing to make ends meet and she ends up falling for another man, an engineer named Tim. However, she’s still in love with Steve.

Slant is so pissed at Brenda rejecting his advances and falling for Tim that, out of jealousy, he ends up telling Steve. And so Steve ends up breaking out of prison to confront his wife and her new lover…

There’s so much more to the story, but this is one messy criminal drama from start to finish. And I was hooked the whole time.

For those who saw this film, what did you think?

It's in bad quality. The letter says

"Dear Marty:

I want you to give the utmost concentration to the building of Humphrey Bogart to stardom in as quick a time as possible.

Bogart has been typed through publicity as a gangster character. We want to undo this. For Bogart is one of the greatest actors on the screen today and has demonstrated this with his parts in "Petrified Forest," "Dark Victory," "It All Came True," and "They Drive By Night." The fellow is a master of technique and can do anything. In "Dark Victory" he showed a type of sex appeal that was unusual and different from that of any other actor on the screen today.

Sell Bogart romantically. Sell him as a great actor. Let us see if within the next two or three months we cannot have the country flooded with Bogart art, --and column breaks lauding Warner Bros. for their recognition of Bogart's talent, and predicting great success for him as a star."

This is one of the most important jobs you have before you in the next few months. I know I can count on you and please let me know how you fare."

Sincerely yours,

S. Charles Einfeld

Director of Advertising and Publicity

Hey there, as a movie nerd I wondered how many free classic movies are out there, turns out there are ten thousands of them. But nobody seemed to have created a really good site where you can discover and watch them as easily as on Netflix. I shied away from the project for years since it felt overwhelming to sort and match them all, but this Christmas I took the time to create Movies Deluxe: https://mdlx.org

For me this was also technical challenge that I love to talk about (I'm not just a movie nerd :P) but may not be the right place here.

The project is a passion project and is completely open source https://github.com/select/movies-deluxe

Let me know if you have ideas for improvements or other question!

I actually watch the film to make sure I didn’t dream it - Eli Wallach is at the ready to kill nuns, kids, even physically challenged folks in wheelchairs, and the worst (best?) thing about it is that it makes him happy! What is your almost over-the-top villain with a sense of (very dark) humor..???

Edit: Okay, friends... Third time trying to post without deleting. Here is an updated post (with their actual pictures). Have fun. :)

Best Actor Category of 1967.

This is a gauntlet of a category (and I fixed it by adding the controversial snub--Poitier-- which makes it harder. I could have picked him for his two other films that year, but choose to stick with this one, because it was more critically acclaimed).

Who do you make the winner?

I'm not totally sure, but I'd think that was rude even at the time.

Earlier tonight, I saw THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR. As you would imagine, it’s a biopic about how Pasteur faced criticism from the scientific community for his theories involving sanitation and vaccines, which led to vaccines being developed for rabies and anthrax.

Paul Muni delivers a solid performance in the main role, and the film itself, though not your standard biopic, tells a powerful story of the importance of scientific achievement.

For those who saw this film, what did you think?

Tomorrow, Tuesday May 19, Regal Cinemas is showing Singin’ in the Rain for only $4.99. My local theater has 4 showtimes throughout the day.

Sorry for the late posting as I meant to put this up earlier. It was fun seeing An American in Paris today and there were only a few of us in the theater.

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Last night, I finally came to watch Gaslight. What a great movie! And I'm happy to say that even my partner, who usually isn't quite into my 1940s stuff, agreed.

We were surprised not by the acting (we knew this would be superb), but by the intensity that somehow felt quite modern.

Double hard Micheal Caine is unforgettable in "Get Carter"

Do not miss this one...