Nelson Eddy is a Harvard-educated lawyer who returns to his frontier hometown and helps free it from crooked railroad magnate Edward Arnold’s grip in Let Freedom Ring. Guest blogger Jessica Pickens reviews the 1939 MGM western/musical.
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Classic 1930s movie reviews, movie articles and information. Movie reviews from classic movies from 1930 to 1939, the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Are These the Things to Come?
Does the 1936 movie made from H.G. Wells’ novel do a good job of imagining the “Things to Come”? Check this analysis of the William Cameron Menzies movie starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, and Cedric Hardwicke, and then make your own predictions.
Read more →Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy: Together Again
Last week saw the release of two exclusive four-film collections featuring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. In this classic remembrance, we look back at two of the beloved musical duo’s movies, Girl of the Golden West and New Moon.
Read more →So, What Were the WORST Movies of 1939?
Humphrey Bogart as a vampire? Ronald Reagan and the Dead End Kids? For the Classic Movie History Project Blogathon, we present this classic look at 10 less-than-classic movies released the same year as Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
Read more →The Phantom of Crestwood (1932): Media Cross-Over, ’30s Style
Movies taken from TV shows (and vice versa) are common now, but 1932’s The Phantom of Crestwood was a media tie-in pioneer. Guest writer Constance Metzinger pulls the mask off the 1932 RKO whodunit, based on a radio series and write-in contest.
Read more →The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939): My Cinema Sanctuary
As his contribution to today’s My Favorite Classic Movie Blogathon, MovieFanFare’s Gary Cahall rings a bell for one of his all-time faves, 1939’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton as Quasimodo and Maureen O’Hara as Esmeralda.
Read more →The Declaration of Independence (1938): Caesar Rodney, Action Hero?
His Revolutionary War-era ride isn’t as famous as Paul Revere’s, but Delaware’s Caesar Rodney was the hero of an Oscar-winning–if not 100% accurate–1938 short. For the Shorts! Blogathon, MovieFanFare looks at Warner Bros.’ The Declaration of Independence.
Read more →Pat O’Brien Scores as the College Coach (1933)
Seven years before starring as Knute Rockne, All American, Pat O’Brien played another gridiron guru in College Coach. Guest writer Laura Grieve tackles the 1933 Warner Bros. pre-Code drama, which also features Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak.
Read more →James Cagney: Top of the World
Since this week marks the anniversary of his groundbreaking tough-guy turn in The Public Enemy, James Cagney is the focus of this classic salute to the pugnacious Oscar-winner, who was as quick on his feet (Yankee Doodle Dandy) as he was with a gun (White Heat).
Read more →The Painted Veil (1934): Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Husband
In 1920s Hong Kong, Greta Garbo is torn between her husband, doctor Herbert Marshall, and British attache George Brent in The Painted Veil. Guest writer Danny Reid examines the 1934 MGM melodrama, based on a W. Somerset Maugham novel.
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