Sunday, December 3, 2023

Movies I Watched in November

I guess Alfred from Miracle on 34th Street still has a complex that 
compels him to play Santa Claus. Seen here with Thelma Ritter (who 
was also in Miracle on 34th Street!) in The Proud and Profane (1958).

It was a good Noirvember. I've never watched this many noirs in one month! After I watched Abandoned on Noir Alley I looked up more Dennis O'Keefe movies on Tubi. Cover Up is a good noir to transition from Noirvember to Christmas :) I also watched watched several Glenn Ford noirs. How many noirs did you watch? 

* indicates a rewatch

  1. Thieves Fall Out (1941) - Eddie Albert & Joan Leslie, Jane Darwell, Alan Hale
  2. *The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Fredric March & Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews & Teresa Wright, Harold Russell & Cathy O’Donnell, Virginia Mayo, Hoagy Carmichael 
  3. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) - Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
  4. *Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara & John Payne, Natalie Wood
  5. T-Men (1947) - Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, Charles McGraw
  6. Framed (1947) - Glenn Ford
  7. The Dark Past (1948) - William Holden, Lee J. Cobb, Nina Foch
  8. Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) - Dennis O'Keefe, Raymond Burr
  9. Cover Up (1949) - Dennis O'Keefe & Barbara Britton, William Bendix
  10. Abandoned (1949) - Dennis O'Keefe & Gale Storm, Raymond Burr
  11. Affair in Trinidad (1952) - Glenn Ford & Rita Hayworth
  12. The Big Heat (1953) - Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin
  13. Human Desire (1954) - Glenn Ford & Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
  14. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - Richard Carlson & Julie Adams
  15. Storm Fear (1955) - Cornel Wilde
  16. The Proud and Profane (1956) - Deborah Kerr & William Holden, Thelma Ritter
  17. The Black Bird (1975) - George Segal ("sequel" to The Maltese Falcon)
  18. The Cheap Detective (1978) - Peter Falk
  19. The Concorde... Airport ‘79 (1979) - Alain Delon, George Kennedy, Eddie Albert
  20. *Moonstruck (1987) - Cher, Nicholas Cage
  21. JFK (1991) - Kevin Costner
  22. *You’ve Got Mail (1998) - Meg Ryan & Tom Hanks
Least Favorite Film: I did not like The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. I had started watching it once and stopped it when Judith Anderson killed the cat. My brother told me it was good so I gave it another shot. I just didn't like it.

Favorite Movie: If you like spoofs than The Cheap Detective is a must watch. It spoofs The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, with a little bit of To Have and Have Not. It was so funny. 

Can you tell who this is a sketch of? From The Proud and Profane (1956).

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4 comments:

  1. Hamlette (Rachel)January 1, 2024 at 5:24 PM

    Aha! Finally, someone else who doesn't like The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers. Not my thing, either.

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    1. PhylJanuary 2, 2024 at 9:16 PM

      I kept waiting for it to get better! Also, wanted to let you know I received your Christmas card! I didn't get around to mailing any cards out this year :/

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    2. Hamlette (Rachel)January 3, 2024 at 12:54 PM

      Phyl, same! And it just never worked for me.

      You are not alone -- we got like 20 fewer cards this year compared to last year. But sent out the same number. Huh.

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  2. Flapper Dame 16January 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM

    Count me in for not being a fan of Strange love of Marta Ivers, I didnt care for it at all. I have no intention of giving it a second chance either, and I saw it maybe 7 years ago.

    The Proud and the Profane was something terrible. Unlikable characters all round!

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