Western Union (1941)
This month is my favorite month on TCM: Summer Under the Stars. There are always lots of great rarely-shown films to see and this year was no exception. The days with the most films I was excited about were Robert Young, Eve Arden, and Setsuka Hara (so far I've only gotten to the Robert Young movies).
We finally bought a new blu-ray of The Quiet Man (1952), one of the most watched films in our house - I've easily seen it over a hundred times in my 30+ years - and the change from our 2002 DVD is remarkable (and our VHS before that)!! It's so much clearer!! For example, I had never noticed Patrick Wayne standing next to Fr. Paul at the very end of the movie! One day I will write about a post about my older sister with Downs Syndrome and how she has had a major impact on me and my brothers and our love of John Wayne and the Three Stooges.
* indicates a rewatch (more than usual this month)
- The Love Parade (1929) - Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Roth
- Love Me Tonight (1932) - Maurice Chevalier & Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith
- The Man Who Played God (1932) - George Arliss, Bette Davis
- *Private Detective 62 (1933) - William Powell & Margaret Lindsey
- The Woman in Red (1935) - Barbara Stanwyck & Gene Raymond
- It's Love Again (1936) - Robert Young & Jessie Matthews
- *Another Dawn (1937) - Kay Francis & Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Frieda Inescort
- *The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937) - William Powell & Luise Rainer, Robert Young & Margaret O'Sullivan, Frank Morgan
- The Mark of Zorro (1940) - Tyrone Power & Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
- When Ladies Meet (1941) - Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, Robert Taylor, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington
- Come Live with Me (1941) - James Stewart & Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter
- Married Bachelor (1941) - Robert Young & Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman
- H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) - Robert Young, Hedy Lamarr, Ruth Hussey, Van Heflin, Bonita Granville, Charles Coburn
- Western Union (1941) - Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger
- Journey for Margaret (1942) - Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, Laraine Day
- *Casablanca (1942) - Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
- *Crossroads (1942) - William Powell & Hedy Lamarr, Basil Rathbone, Claire Trevor
- The Demi-Paradise (1943) - Laurence Olivier & Penelope Dudley Ward, Margaret Rutherford
- The Canterville Ghost (1944) - Robert Young, Charles Laughton, Margaret O'Brien
- *The Hoodlum Saint (1946) - William Powell & Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury, Frank McHugh
- Scott of the Antarctic (1948) - John Mills
- Roughshod (1949) - Robert Sterling & Gloria Grahame, Claude Jarman Jr., Myrna Dell, John Ireland
- *Roughshod (1949) - ibid.
- Three Guys Named Mike (1951) - Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan
- According to Mrs. Hoyle (1951) - Spring Byington
- *The Quiet Man (1952) - John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Barry FitzGerald, Ward Bond
- South of Algiers/Golden Mask (1953) - Van Heflin
- The Hangman (1959) - Robert Taylor & Tina Louise, Fess Parker, Jack Lord
- Our Man in Marrakesh (1966) - Tony Randall, Terry Thomas
- *The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - Steve McQueen & Faye Dunaway
- Return to Me (2000) - David Duchovny & Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor
- Jungle Cruise (2021) - Emily Blunt & Dwayne Johnson, Jack Whitehall
Elvis Presley Ed Sullivan Shows
Elvis Presley '68 Comeback Special
That yellow tree ♥
Western Union (1941)
Least Favorite Film: Probably The Woman in Red - Barbara Stanwyck was good but I'm not much on Gene Raymond. I skipped through most of the musical numbers in It's Love Again.
Favorite Movie: Jungle Cruise was just as fun a ride as I expected! Emily Blunt is my favorite modern actress and her chemistry with Dwayne Johnson was fantastic. I can't wait to buy it on blu-ray and watch it again. I wish I could have seen it in theaters. Roughshod wasn't on my list but I saw a tweet that said it was hard to find so I had to give it a go. It was so good I watched it twice!! It would have made a great TV series! Another movie I hadn't intended on watching was The Canterville Ghost. I'm not much on Margaret O'Brien but she was very cute in this movie (so was Robert Young, surprisingly!). I'm not crazy about Laughton either but this was a very funny movie, similar to The Ghost Goes West (1935), which I'm reviewing in a few days for the No True Scotsman Blogathon.
Favorite Quote:
Robert Taylor in The Hangman (1959) on age differences: "Time is like a barbed wire fence. When too many years pile up, we can’t get across to each other."
How I think I look when I do embroidery ;)
Kay Francis in Another Dawn (1937)
Make sure you check out my Recycled Costume Roundup for August that I posted yesterday!
Like you, we're a The Quiet Man family and you have me yearning to see the restored disc.
ReplyDeleteI've had Roughshod on the lineup for ages wanting to share it with my family but I can't get them settled. I'm just going to go ahead and enjoy it myself. That'll show 'em!
I spent more time looking at the backgrounds than the action! Next time we’re going to watch it with subtitles. There’s still a few lines we’ve never been able to catch ;)
DeleteIt will indeed!! :D
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Western Union. The cinematography was gorgeous. And coincidentally I also re-watched Return to Me. It's one of my all time favorites. I love the side characters played by Bonnie HUnt and Jim Belushi as well as all the old men.
ReplyDeleteWasn’t it though! My only complaint was I wish the sister had been in more scenes.
DeleteThe poker scenes were so funny!