The world was at war 80 years ago. The United States was grieving over the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 by the Japanese military and the defeat of our forces that month at Wake Island. And then the beloved Carole Lombard, her mother, servicemen and the crew perished in a plane crash west of Las Vegas on January 16, 1942. She was returning to Hollywood after raising 2 million in a war bond drive in Indianapolis.
How would Hollywood and audiences respond to World War II? They certainly didn’t shy away from the war. If you look at the top 10 films of the year, there are some escapist films but also movies dealing with the global conflict.
In fact, the No. 1 film of the year William Wyler’s “Mrs. Miniver” broke records at Radio City Music Hall in New York playing 10 weeks. Production began on the stirring, sentimental drama about a British...
How would Hollywood and audiences respond to World War II? They certainly didn’t shy away from the war. If you look at the top 10 films of the year, there are some escapist films but also movies dealing with the global conflict.
In fact, the No. 1 film of the year William Wyler’s “Mrs. Miniver” broke records at Radio City Music Hall in New York playing 10 weeks. Production began on the stirring, sentimental drama about a British...
- 9/18/2022
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Helping you stay sane while staying safe… featuring Leonard Maltin, Dave Anthony, Miguel Arteta, John Landis, and Blaire Bercy from the Hollywood Food Coalition.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Plague (1979)
Target Earth (1954)
The Left Hand of God (1955)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Enough Said (2013)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Down to Earth (2001)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Commitments (1991)
Once (2007)
Election (1999)
About Schmidt (2002)
Sideways (2004)
Nebraska (2013)
The Man in the Moon (1991)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Night Walker (1964)
Chuck and Buck (2000)
Cedar Rapids (2011)
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Duck Butter (2018)
The Good Girl (2002)
The Big Heat (1953)
Human Desire (1954)
Slightly French (1949)
Week-End with Father (1951)
Experiment In Terror (1962)
They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (1969)
Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987)
Airport (1970)
Earthquake (1974)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Waves (2019)
Krisha (2015)
The Oblong Box (1969)
80,000 Suspects (1963)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
It Comes At Night (2017)
Children of Men (2006)
The Road (2009)
You Were Never Really Here...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Plague (1979)
Target Earth (1954)
The Left Hand of God (1955)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Enough Said (2013)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Down to Earth (2001)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Commitments (1991)
Once (2007)
Election (1999)
About Schmidt (2002)
Sideways (2004)
Nebraska (2013)
The Man in the Moon (1991)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Night Walker (1964)
Chuck and Buck (2000)
Cedar Rapids (2011)
Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Duck Butter (2018)
The Good Girl (2002)
The Big Heat (1953)
Human Desire (1954)
Slightly French (1949)
Week-End with Father (1951)
Experiment In Terror (1962)
They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (1969)
Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (1987)
Airport (1970)
Earthquake (1974)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Pushover (1954)
Waves (2019)
Krisha (2015)
The Oblong Box (1969)
80,000 Suspects (1963)
Panic In The Streets (1950)
It Comes At Night (2017)
Children of Men (2006)
The Road (2009)
You Were Never Really Here...
- 5/1/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Erik Charell. His credits include script contributions to the Hope-Crosby comedy Road to Morocco and the Tony Martin musical Casbah. To learn this after seeing his only two features as director, The Congress Dances (1931) and Caravan (1934), is like discovering there was a guy called Orson Welles who made Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and spent the rest of his career writing gags for Abbott & Costello.Perhaps Charell wasn't an artist of quite Welles' status. But he'd made a big name for himself in operetta, and both his films are in this mode, though the operetta-film is the genre that time forgot. As out-of-vogue as musicals are, despite anything Damien Chazelle can prove to the contrary, they are the height of fashion compared to actual filmed operettas.The Congress Dances is set in Vienna as pre-wwi world leaders meet and get distracted by romance, except Conrad Veidt as master diplomat...
- 3/3/2017
- MUBI
It looks like the big screen adaptation of the hit video game Uncharted could end up being an awesome hardcore action film that no one was expecting! Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces, The Grey) wrote the script for the film, and he didn't hold back.
In an interview with Comingsoon, the filmmaker reveals that the script for the film is definitely rated R, he explains how he broke the Indiana Jones mold, and also says that there are "four of the biggest, f***in’ craziest action sequences" in the movies. I think fans of the game are going to be very happy with what he has to say about his script:
"When I wrote Uncharted, I didn’t spare the rod. I wrote it the way the video game is. They swear in the game, they’re kinda foul-mouthed and I kept all that stuff intact and I definitely didn’t...
In an interview with Comingsoon, the filmmaker reveals that the script for the film is definitely rated R, he explains how he broke the Indiana Jones mold, and also says that there are "four of the biggest, f***in’ craziest action sequences" in the movies. I think fans of the game are going to be very happy with what he has to say about his script:
"When I wrote Uncharted, I didn’t spare the rod. I wrote it the way the video game is. They swear in the game, they’re kinda foul-mouthed and I kept all that stuff intact and I definitely didn’t...
- 2/23/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Worlds collide in this 1940 musical-comedy-horror film directed by David Butler (a Hollywood vet best known for breezy low-budget fare like Road to Morocco) but it’s up to the audience to decide who’s scarier… co-stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Bela Lugosi or bandleader Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge. To their credit Karloff and crew retain their dignity even when faced with Kyser’s right-hand stooge, Ish Kabibble, a half-wit coronet player about whom the phrase “acquired taste” was invented.
- 10/24/2016
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
But almost 40 years since he left us, it's easy to forget that Crosby recorded nearly 400 hit singles over his long career--more than either Elvis Presley or the Beatles. He was also the owner of Pittsburgh Pirates as well as thoroughbred race horses, and played a fab game of golf. In fact, he died on a Madrid golf course at age 73 in 1977. PBS's season finale of "American Masters," "Bing Crosby Rediscovered," aims to dig a little deeper behind the Hollywood persona. The show debuts Tuesday, December 2 at 8 pm, the same day as the DVD, with an encore airing on Friday, December 26 at 9 pm. Narrated by Stanley Tucci, the documentary boasts new interviews the Crosby family, his record producer Ken Barnes, his biographer Gary Giddins and more. In the videos below, crooners Tony Bennett and Michael Feinstein talk about Crosby's singing and "Moonlight Becomes You" from "Road to Morocco" (1942), on one Tonight Show.
- 11/24/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in Winterbottom’s “The Trip to Italy”
The Trip to Italy Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom U.K. and Italy, 2014 Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip to Italy reunites the faux on-screen personalities of comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan. It is light fare rooted in fine cuisine and the duo’s off-the-wall impressions as they dine that range from world renown personalities to uniquely British figures that only a smidgen of a broader audience might truly appreciate. In their first movie The Trip- the pair was called upon to blog about U.K. cuisine on a road trip for the news juggernaut The Observer. It was so successful that Coogan is bringing Brydon back into the fold in order to recreate the magic (along with another paycheck)- this time for a whirlwind culinary adventure around Italy. The staple aspects of Coogan’s...
The Trip to Italy Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom U.K. and Italy, 2014 Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip to Italy reunites the faux on-screen personalities of comedians Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan. It is light fare rooted in fine cuisine and the duo’s off-the-wall impressions as they dine that range from world renown personalities to uniquely British figures that only a smidgen of a broader audience might truly appreciate. In their first movie The Trip- the pair was called upon to blog about U.K. cuisine on a road trip for the news juggernaut The Observer. It was so successful that Coogan is bringing Brydon back into the fold in order to recreate the magic (along with another paycheck)- this time for a whirlwind culinary adventure around Italy. The staple aspects of Coogan’s...
- 4/26/2014
- by Lane Scarberry
- SoundOnSight
Comedy Classics! week begins at Trailers from Hell today with director John Landis introducing 1942's "Road to Morocco," starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Third in the series of seven self-aware Hope-Crosby Road comedies, this Ishtar-like entry was one of the most popular. Full of Hollywood in-jokes and asides to the audience (much like Warner Bros cartoons), the Road pictures transcend their dated settings with a modernistic approach that has stood the test of time. Famous for an unplanned blooper where a camel spits in Hope's face. The duo's reactions were so funny that the bit was left in the final cut.
- 1/28/2013
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
Todd Phillips, director of The Hangover, reteams with Zach Galifianakis (It’s Kind of a Funny Story) joined by Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) in a retelling of the classic buddy road trip comedy. This genre was originally pioneered by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby with movies like On the Road to Morocco. A more contemporary and applicable comparison can be made to Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, which starred Steve Martin and the late John Candy.
Much like that film, the story involves very different men trying to get cross country. In this case Downey’s character Peter Highman is trying to get home where his pregnant wife will soon go into labor. While at the airport he meets Galifianakis’s Ethan Tremblay, an eccentric aspiring actor on his way to Hollywood. A series of shenanigans gets both men kicked off their plane and placed on a no fly list.
Much like that film, the story involves very different men trying to get cross country. In this case Downey’s character Peter Highman is trying to get home where his pregnant wife will soon go into labor. While at the airport he meets Galifianakis’s Ethan Tremblay, an eccentric aspiring actor on his way to Hollywood. A series of shenanigans gets both men kicked off their plane and placed on a no fly list.
- 3/8/2011
- by Tom Hoeler
- JustPressPlay.net
11:45: Steven Spielberg classes up the joint when giving out the Best Picture award. He reminds the "losers" they'll join The Grapes of Wrath, Citizen Kane, Raging Bull and a few other masterpieces that didn't win.
Then he announced The King's Speech as the Best Picture winner.
The King's Speech is a very, very good movie. But not the Best Picture. The Social Network, Black Swan, Inception and True Grit are all, in my opinion, far superior. I even prefer The Kids Are All Right. 127 Hours and Toy Story 3 are around the same level as The King's Speech. (Winter's Bone, I felt, was interesting, but not all that great.)
I suppose this is why awards shows annoy me. How do you compare art? You can't. But Oscar Night can still be fun. It affords me an opportunity to think back about all the great movies of the past year.
Then he announced The King's Speech as the Best Picture winner.
The King's Speech is a very, very good movie. But not the Best Picture. The Social Network, Black Swan, Inception and True Grit are all, in my opinion, far superior. I even prefer The Kids Are All Right. 127 Hours and Toy Story 3 are around the same level as The King's Speech. (Winter's Bone, I felt, was interesting, but not all that great.)
I suppose this is why awards shows annoy me. How do you compare art? You can't. But Oscar Night can still be fun. It affords me an opportunity to think back about all the great movies of the past year.
- 2/28/2011
- UGO Movies
Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Road to Morocco Bob Hope on TCM Schedule and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 Am Bachelor In Paradise (1961) A writer moves into a housing development to study married couples. Cast: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige. Dir: Jack Arnold. C-109 mins. 5:00 Am Global Affair, A (1964) A U.N. official tries to locate the mother of an abandoned baby. Cast: Bob Hope, Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling. Dir: Jack Arnold. Bw-84 mins. 6:30 Am I’ll Take Sweden (1965) A widower takes a job in Stockholm to get his daughter away from her boyfriend. Cast: Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon. Dir: Frederick de Cordova. C-97 mins. 8:08 Am Short Film: Stockholm "Pride Of Sweden" (1937) In this "Traveltalk," we learn about Stockholm’s people, culture, and history. C-9 mins. 8:30 Am Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) A real estate agent tries to keep a...
- 8/8/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
HollywoodNews.com: The dog days of summer are the best time of the year for movie fans as they turn on the air conditioning and park themselves on the couch for the latest edition of Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) ultimate movie star showcase: Summer Under The Stars.
Now in its eighth year, the August festival dedicates each of its 31 days to one of Hollywood’s most enduring actors and actresses. This year’s roster is set to include such stars as Steve McQueen (Aug. 3), Ingrid Bergman (Aug. 6), Errol Flynn (Aug. 7), Bob Hope (Aug. 8), Walter Matthau (Aug. 11), Maureen O’Hara (on her 90th birthday, Aug. 17), Katharine Hepburn (Aug. 20), Paul Newman (Aug. 21), Lauren Bacall (Aug. 25), Olivia de Havilland (Aug. 27), Peter O’Toole (Aug. 28), Henry Fonda (Aug. 29) and Clint Eastwood (Aug. 31). Assembled from the network’s library of more than 5,000 films, this one-of-a-kind festival is an opportunity for viewers to enjoy a varied...
Now in its eighth year, the August festival dedicates each of its 31 days to one of Hollywood’s most enduring actors and actresses. This year’s roster is set to include such stars as Steve McQueen (Aug. 3), Ingrid Bergman (Aug. 6), Errol Flynn (Aug. 7), Bob Hope (Aug. 8), Walter Matthau (Aug. 11), Maureen O’Hara (on her 90th birthday, Aug. 17), Katharine Hepburn (Aug. 20), Paul Newman (Aug. 21), Lauren Bacall (Aug. 25), Olivia de Havilland (Aug. 27), Peter O’Toole (Aug. 28), Henry Fonda (Aug. 29) and Clint Eastwood (Aug. 31). Assembled from the network’s library of more than 5,000 films, this one-of-a-kind festival is an opportunity for viewers to enjoy a varied...
- 6/15/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Y Chicks R Dumb: So more than one or two culture vultures, most of them female, have glommed on to the fact that a lot of the more vehement reactions to Sex and the City 2 are misogynist and represent a cultural double standard. To which one can only respond, "No duh," (or, more rudely, "No shit, Sherlock") and "What took you so long?" The wittiest and most piercing of these pieces was from The New York Times' Manohla Dargis (who gets exempted from reaction time criticism because the week-or-so-later thumbsucker in Arts & Leisure is just how things work, and are supposed to work, in a sane news-cycle world, the one that existed before you crazy internet kids came and mucked it up so you have no one to blame but yourselves) (also, full disclosure: Manohla's a friend) who also did some worthwhile heavy lifting on the film's larger and even more problematic cultural context.
- 6/11/2010
- MUBI
By Roger Friedman
HollywoodNews.com: “Sex and the City 2″ has some of the worst reviews ever in recent memory–especially for what’s billed as a romantic comedy.
Currently, it’s rating a 3.7 out of 10 on rottentomatoes.com. Most critics just hated it. But will that matter when it opens today?
I sat through it on Monday night, and will say this: it is just way too long. All I kept thinking was: If only Harvey Weinstein had been in charge, 30 minutes of this nonsense would be gone.
The girls’ trip to Abu Dhabi is excruciating, and something out of era when “Road to Morocco” could milk all kinds of burka jokes. You would think four sophisticated women from New York City, who used to seeing multi-culturalism, would be more savvy when arriving in a foreign country. They act like rubes and hicks.
The other problem is the gay...
HollywoodNews.com: “Sex and the City 2″ has some of the worst reviews ever in recent memory–especially for what’s billed as a romantic comedy.
Currently, it’s rating a 3.7 out of 10 on rottentomatoes.com. Most critics just hated it. But will that matter when it opens today?
I sat through it on Monday night, and will say this: it is just way too long. All I kept thinking was: If only Harvey Weinstein had been in charge, 30 minutes of this nonsense would be gone.
The girls’ trip to Abu Dhabi is excruciating, and something out of era when “Road to Morocco” could milk all kinds of burka jokes. You would think four sophisticated women from New York City, who used to seeing multi-culturalism, would be more savvy when arriving in a foreign country. They act like rubes and hicks.
The other problem is the gay...
- 5/27/2010
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
Next up in the "We Can't Wait: Summer and Beyond" countdown... five impossibly glitzy girls!
Directed by: Michael Patrick King, aka that guy who started it all and refuses to quit it.
Starring: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker aka Sjp), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), The Island of Manhattan (Manhattan), Samantha (Kim Cattrall) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis). And in that order though you may disagree.
Synopsis: Until the most recent trailer (below) all we knew was that they go to the desert because that's what filthy rich gorgeous 40somethings in Manhattan apparently do when they need a little R & R. Plot is beside the point. It's all about the girls, the clothes and the laughs.
Brought to you by: the last film's extraordinary box office
Release date: May 27th
Nathaniel: So, Jose. You and I will probably get flak for picking this one.
Jose: Then bring on the flak!
Nathaniel: But here's the...
Directed by: Michael Patrick King, aka that guy who started it all and refuses to quit it.
Starring: Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker aka Sjp), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), The Island of Manhattan (Manhattan), Samantha (Kim Cattrall) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis). And in that order though you may disagree.
Synopsis: Until the most recent trailer (below) all we knew was that they go to the desert because that's what filthy rich gorgeous 40somethings in Manhattan apparently do when they need a little R & R. Plot is beside the point. It's all about the girls, the clothes and the laughs.
Brought to you by: the last film's extraordinary box office
Release date: May 27th
Nathaniel: So, Jose. You and I will probably get flak for picking this one.
Jose: Then bring on the flak!
Nathaniel: But here's the...
- 4/11/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
I know, Dustin already pained you with the Sex and the City 2 trailer, but it's Christmas, so we're gifting it to you again. You know, because that's what happens during the holidays. You get the same thing twice because you stupidly include the same items on the wishlist you give to your girlfriend as the one you send Santa (for those not keeping up, Dustin is your girlfriend and I'm St. Nick).
I have little to say about the spot, actually. I unfortunately saw a few episodes of the show a long time ago when I had more female friends than male, but honestly I don't even know the names of the characters except for Carrie (and that is only because of that terrible new tagline). And I never paid much attention otherwise because I couldn't stand seeing the formerly hot mannequin with green eyes as the plastic creature she's become.
I have little to say about the spot, actually. I unfortunately saw a few episodes of the show a long time ago when I had more female friends than male, but honestly I don't even know the names of the characters except for Carrie (and that is only because of that terrible new tagline). And I never paid much attention otherwise because I couldn't stand seeing the formerly hot mannequin with green eyes as the plastic creature she's become.
- 12/24/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
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