Movies I Watched in November

She who must be obeyed.

Started off Noirvember with Laura (1944), then read Gene Tierney's autobiography Self Portrait that I picked it up at an antique store a couple months ago. Ended Noirvember with Nightfall. I also read the book of the same name by David Goodis that the film was based on. Continued watching more Robert Redford movies. Looks like TCM is showing a couple Dennis Morgan movies early every Saturday morning right now. I revisited Tear Gas Squad with my favorite Dennis Morgan song (here):

Cute little Karolyn Grimes in Albuquerque.

This month ended up being Randolph Scott Westerns month. I've never purposefully explored his films. The ones I have seen I was usually watching for someone else: Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Cary Grant, Fred and Ginger, etc. A couple months ago I watched Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend because of James Garner and The Walking Hills for Ella Raines. Then right at the end of last month I finished Canadian Pacific, which I had started several months before on tubi, and then decided to watch the two other Scott movies that were on Watch TCM. There's quite a few of his films on tubi so I kept going!

*indicates a rewatch

1. Beau Geste (1926) - Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Noah Beery, William Powell, Victor McLaglen
2. She (1935) - Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
3. The Last of the Mohicans (1936) - Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel
4. The Texans (1938) - Randolph Scott & Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings, May Robson, Walter Brennan
5. *Bachelor Mother (1939) - Ginger Rogers & David Niven, Charles Coburn
6. *Tear Gas Squad (1940) - Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson
7. Tennessee Johnson (1942) - Van Heflin & Ruth Hussey, Lionel Barrymore, Marjorie Main
8. *Laura (1944) - Gene Tierney & Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
9. Belle of the Yukon (1944) - Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
10. *One More Tomorrow (1946) - Dennis Morgan & Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Reginald Gardiner
11. Abilene Town (1946) - Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak
12. *Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara & John Payne, Natalie Wood
13. Albuquerque (1948) - Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Lon Chaney Jr., Karolyn Grimes
14. The Cariboo Trail (1950) - Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, George 'Gabby' Hayes
15. Circle of Danger (1951) - Ray Milland & Patricia Roc
16. Carson City (1952) - Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey
17. *All That Heaven Allows (1955) - Jane Wyman & Rock Hudson, Agnes Morehead, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott
18. Tight Spot (1955) - Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith
19. *Nightfall (1956) - Aldo Ray & Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith
20. The Tall T (1957) - Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan
21. The Way We Were (1973) - Barbra Streisand & Robert Redford
22. *The Sting (1973) - Robert Redford & Paul Newman
23. *Moonstruck (1987) - Cher & Nicholas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia
24. *Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) - Steve Martin & John Candy
25. Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) - Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Laura Carmichael, et. all

A&E Biography Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait (1999)

Least Favorite Film: The Cariboo Trail. I rolled my eyes a lot. It had a lot of the Western cliches.

I loved this costume though!

Favorite Movie: The Tall T was really good. Somehow no one in my family had heard of it before! Also low key obsessed with She. The thumbnail showed snow so I hit play. Really enjoyed Circle of Danger. Ray Milland travels to England to look up the men of the commando unit his brother fought with during the war to try and clear up the mysterious circumstances of his death. No one seems to be able to answer his questions. All three films are on Tubi.

Favorite Quote: (All from One More Tomorrow)

Smith: "Stop being bitter and get me a drink."

Morgan: "Haven't we met before?"

Gardiner: "No, I don't think so. I might have forgotten you, but you'd never have forgotten me."

Morgan: "Strange, I could have sworn that.."

Gardiner: "No, no. We've never met. But you may have seen my picture somewhere. I used to be an advertising model."

(This exchange was funny because they were both in Christmas in Connecticut the previous year.)

Wyman: "What are you doing on this couch, I thought the blue one was your favorite."

Gardiner: "It developed a bump in the middle. It and I are through."

She (1935)

Movies I Watched in October

My blog celebrated its 11th Anniversary this month on the 8th! Pulled out my Marlene Dietrich Glamour Collection and watched three movies on it. Continued re-watching Robert Redford movies. Introduced my brothers to Murder, He Says. 

* indicates a rewatch

1. The Devil is a Woman (1935) - Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero
2. You'll Find Out (1940) - Kay Kyser, Dennis O'Keefe, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre
3. The Flame of New Orleans (1941) - Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young
4. *Murder, He Says (1945) - Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
5. Golden Earrings (1947) - Ray Milland & Marlene Dietrich
6. To the Victor (1948) - Dennis Morgan & Viveca Lindfors, Dorothy Malone
7. Deep Waters (1948) - Dana Andrews & Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Anne Revere, Ed Begley
8. Canadian Pacific (1949) - Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, Nancy Olson
9. Fighting Man of the Plains (1949) - Randolph Scott
10. Southside 1-1000 (1950) - Don DeFore, Andrea King, George Tobias 
11. *Imitation General (1958) - Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Dean Jones, Kent Smith
12. *Barefoot in the Park (1967) - Jane Fonda & Robert Redford, Mildred Natwick, Charles Boyer
13. *All the President's Men (1976) - Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards
14. *The Electric Horseman (1979) - Robert Redford & Jane Fonda, Willie Nelson, John Saxon
15. *Apollo 13 (1995) - Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan

The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford (1976) - on YT!

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 (1996)

John Candy: I Like Me (2025-Amazon Prime)

Least Favorite Film: Probably The Devil is a Woman. I'd watch it again though.

Favorite Movie: Intriguing new-to-me movies were Deep Waters, Golden Earrings, and To the Victor (the latter on Watch TCM until November 14th - recommend if you're a Dennis Morgan fan).

Favorite Quote: "I'm nobody's story but my own." 

~ Robert Redford in The Electric Horseman to Jane Fonda

To the Victor (1948)

Movies I Watched in September

We lost Robert Redford this month. The last of the cool gentlemen.

Only Murders in the Building season 5 started on Hulu. I've watched the six episodes that have aired so far along with the video version of the podcast. Me and my brother revisited The Big Sleep (maybe my fourth watch?). We concentrated really hard (so many names) and kept pausing it to clarify certain points with each other but as we talked it out afterwards we were still confused lol.

* indicates a rewatch

1. The Plot Thickens (1936) - James Gleason, Zasu Pitts
2. Love Story/A Woman Surrenders (1944) - Margaret Lockwood & Stewart Granger
3. *The Big Sleep (1946) - Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers
4. The Cure for Love (1949) - Robert Donat & Renee Asherson
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Peter O'Toole, Omar Shariff, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Claude Rains, Anthony Quinn, Jose Ferrer
6. Guns of Diablo (1964) - Charles Bronson, Kurt Russell
7. *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Paul Newman & Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin
8. The Horse Whisperer (1998) - Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson
9. *Our Souls at Night (2017) - Jane Fonda & Robert Redford
10. The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021) - Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner, Felicity Jones

Least Favorite Film: The last third or so of Lawrence of Arabia started to get very tiresome. I watched it over three days. Guns of Diablo was ok. It's an extended version of the last episode of Kurt Russell's TV Show The Travels of Jamie McPheeters. The copy TCM showed is a little clearer than the one on Tubi. There had been several episodes of the show on an Osmond Brothers channel on YT (they played one of the families in the wagon train) but it looks like they're no longer there. 

Favorite Movie: If you love Robert Donat like I do, make sure to check out The Cure for Love (it's on YT! the channel - Dubjax - was taken down but a new one was started - Dubjax Films. He uploads lots of great British films). Donat also, wrote, produced, and directed it! It was kind of difficult for me to make out all of the dialogue and the closed captions weren't really helpful. It was one of the few Donat films I have left to watch.

Favorite Quote: "Who are those guys?" (both Redford and Newman)

Movies I Watched in August

This month I rewatched the first two seasons of The Nanny. I also watched season 1 of A Man on the Inside (2024-present) on Netflix starring Ted Danson. Highly recommend. Funny and heartfelt. Season 2 comes out Nov. 20th. 

1. *The Conspirators (1944) - Paul Henreid & Hedy Lamarr, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
2. *To Have and Have Not (1944) - Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael
3. *The Captive Heart (1946) - Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns
4. The Walking Hills (1949) - Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, John Ireland, Arthur Kennedy
5. Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) - Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Chuck Conners, Marshall Thompson
6. Johnny Tremain (1957) - Hal Stalmaster, Sebastian Cabot, Richerd Beymer
7. Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957) - Randolph Scott, James Garner, James Craig, Angie Dickinson
8. The Americanization of Emily (1964) - James Garner & Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn
9. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) - Michael Caine, Steve Martin
10. Message in a Bottle (1999) - Kevin Costner & Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman
11. Enola Holmes 2 (2022) - Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter
12. The Thursday Murder Club (2025) - Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, David Tennant

Least Favorite Film: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The beginning was funny. And the last 15 minutes of Message in a Bottle. 

Favorite Movie: I really enjoyed The Thursday Murder Club. I was afraid it might be too gory but thankfully it wasn't. I hope Netflix makes a sequel. There was one scene with Helen Mirren that I just loved. 

Movies I Watched in July

My brother bought a month of Netflix so I was able to watch the handful of things on there I've been wanting to watch for a while, including the show Manifest. It was so good!!! If you like suspenseful time-travel/save-the-world shows than this is for you. Here's the season 1 trailer: 

There were also several Netflix Original documentaries I wanted to watch. They are listed below the movies. I tried watching a WWII one but they colorized all of the black and white footage and it was really distracting. 

Started listening to season 6 of “The Plot Thickens” on the making of Cleopatra (1963). 

* indicates a rewatch

1. Hot Tip (1935) - James Gleason, Zasu Pitts
2. Day-Time Wife (1939) - Tyrone Power & Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie
3. This Side of the Law (1948/50) - Kent Smith, Viveca Lindfors, Janis Paige
4. *Roman Holiday (1953) - Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert
5. Cleopatra (1963) - Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Hume Cronyn, Roddy McDowell
6. For Love of the Game (1999) - Kevin Costner & Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, J. K. Simmons
7. *Safe Haven (2013) - Julianne Hough & Josh Duhamel
8. *The Lost Husband (2020) - Leslie Bibb & Josh Duhamel
9. Enola Holmes (2020) - Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helen Bonham Carter
10. The Dig (2021) - Ralph Fiennes, Carrey Mulligan, Lily James
11. Blackout (2022) - Josh Duhamel
12. Operation Mincemeat (2022) - Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton

The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014) - Bing Russell, Kurt Russell

Sly (2023) - Netflix doc on Sylvester Stallone, HIGHLY recommend for Rocky fans

Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (2024) - mainly about the '68 Special

Martha (2024) - Stewart

Least Favorite Film: I watched about half of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962). It was extremely boring and Glenn Ford had zero chemistry with his co-star. Poor Lee J. Cobb was playing his grandfather for the first 20 minutes and came across as a cartoonish character.

Favorite Movie: I was surprised with how much I liked Enola Holmes. The Dig was an interesting film (though the Lily James storyline could have easily been cut - it didn't really add anything). Eddie Muller may not have cared for This Side of the Law but I enjoyed the atmosphere of the film. And Day-Time Wife was cute, even if the plot is an overdone one. 

This Side of the Law (1950) - Janis Paige

Movies I Watched in June

90s month anyone? I had to rewatch Joe Versus the Volcano when I saw that Robert Stack and Lloyd Bridges were in it. When I first saw it in my early 20s I thought it was just weird. I liked it better this time. Meg Ryan was very funny in it and was able to make each character feel unique. My brother wanted me to watch Hard Rain. He remembers acting it out with his action figures when he was little lol. Watched the very first season of Scooby Doo, Where Are You? It was a favorite growing up. I didn't recognize all of the episodes. The last episode of the season had "Sydney Greenstreet" and "Peter Lorre" villains. I started reading A Many-Splendored Thing by Han Suyin. The William Holden/Jennifer Jones film is based on the memoir. It has some lovely sentences describing the moon and stars.

* indicates a rewatch

1. The Skin Game (1931) - Edmund Gwenn
2. Paris Interlude (1934) - Robert Young, Madge Evans, Otto Kruger, Una Merkel 
3. Murder in the Fleet (1935) - Robert Taylor, Nat Pendleton, Una Merkel
4. *Summertime (1955) - Katharine Hepburn & Rossano Brazzi
5. Land of the Pharaohs (1955) - Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins
6. Armored Command (1961) - Howard Keel, Earl Hollaman, Tina Louise, Burt Reynolds
7. The Man Who Would Be King (1975) - Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
8. *Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Ossie Davis
9. Point Break (1991) - Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze
10. *Sleepless in Seattle (1993) - Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Rosie O’Donnell, Rita Wilson, Rob Reiner 
11. *Sense and Sensibility (1995) - Emma Thompson, Alan Rickma, Kate Wislet, Hugh Grant
12. Hard Rain (1998) - Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner
13. Penelope (2006) - Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Peter Dinklage, Reese Witherspoon, Simon Woods, Richard E. Grant
14. *Becoming Jane (2007) - Anne Hathaway & James McAvoy, Maggie Smith

Discovering Sean Connery (2019) - really good documentary on kanopy!

Elvis... He Loved Me First (2023) - home video footage from 1955, also on kanopy

Least Favorite Film: I love surfing movies but Point Break did not make the cut. Wasn't much on The Skin Game. The topic is distressful for me - sacrificing beauty in the course of modernizing.

Favorite Movie: Really enjoyed The Man Who Would Be King. Highly recommend (it's on Tubi). Christopher Plummer is practically unrecognizable! Was hanging out with a friend and she put on Penelope. It was actually really funny!

Movies I Watched in May

This month ended up being Charlton Heston and Jack Hawkins month. I also started reading several movie star autobiographies including Ronald Colman: A Very Private Person by his daughter Juliet Benita Colman, Anything for a Quiet Life by Jack Hawkins, and Pieces of My Heart by Robert Wagner (with Scott Eyman). I picked up the Wagner book at a thrift store for a dollar but it's very tmi. I will probably donate it back. I really liked the book by him I read last month though. 

* indicates a rewatch

1. The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) - Vilma Banksy, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper
2. Personal Maid's Secret (1935) - Ruth Donnaly, Margaret Lindsey, Anita Louise
3. Fires Were Started (1943) - real civilian firefighters
4. *Force of Arms (1951) - William Holden & Nancy Olson
5. *When in Rome (1952) - Van Johnson, Paul Douglas
6. The Planter's Wife/Outpost in Malaya (1952) - Jack Hawkins & Claudette Colbert
7. The Cruel Sea (1953) - Jack Hawkins
8. The President's Lady (1953) - Charlton Heston & Susan Hayward
9. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
10. *Ben-Hur (1959) - Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Steven Boyd, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Finlay Currie
11. 55 Days at Peking (1963) - Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Leo Genn
12. Planet of the Apes (1968) - Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore
13. *Moonstruck (1987) - Cher, Nicholas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia
14. *Tequila Sunrise (1988) - Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell
15. The Man Without a Face (1993) - Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl
16. *Persuasion (1995) - Amanda Root & Ciaran Hinds
17. *Soldier (1998) - Kurt Russell, Connie Nielson
18. The Majestic (2001) - Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, James Whitmore, David Ogden Stiers
19. Sky High (2005) - Kurt Russell, Lynda Carter
20. *Austenland (2013) - Kerri Russell, JJ Feild, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Seymour

*Pride and Prejudice (1995) - Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle

Least Favorite Film: I watched about an hour of Duel in the Sun (1946) but didn't care for it. I didn't like seeing Gregory Peck play a creep. I was in a Charlton Heston mood after revising Ben-Hur for the first time since I was in high school and so ended up watching Planet of the Apes. It was ok - the score was a little unsettling. 

Favorite Movie: If you're a Ronald Colman fan you HAVE to watch The Winning of Barbara Worth. Swoon! And I definitely recommend The Majestic. It's set during the McCarthy Witch Hunt.