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Frequently Reviewed Directors

  • Alfred Hitchcock

Dial M For Murder (1954) Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams

Foreign Correspondent (1940) Joel McCrea, Loraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders

Lifeboat (1944) Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak, Hume Cronyn, William Bendix

Re-watching Vertigo – Questions, Questions

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Joseph Cotten, Theresa Wright

Suspicion (1941) Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce

Vertigo (1958) – James Stewart, Kim Novak


  • Billy Wilder

Double Indemnity (1944) Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson

Sabrina (1954) Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden

Seeing Double Indemnity on the Big Screen

Sunset Boulevard (1950) Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olsen

Witness for the Prosecution – Movie, Play, Short Story, from Agatha Christie to Billy Wilder


  • Frank Capra

Meet John Doe (1941) Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold

The Miracle Woman (1931) Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy

The Miracle Woman: The Film That Made Me a Fan


  • Howard Hawks

Bringing Up Baby (1938) Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn

The Big Sleep – 1945 and 1945

The Big Sleep – Movie and Book  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vicker

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn


  • John Ford

The Hurricane (1937)

The Quiet Man (1952) John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Barry Fitzgerald


  • James Whale

Show Boat (1936) Irene Dunne, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Alan Jones, Charles Winnniger, Hattie McDaniel

Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein: A Double Feature

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Colin Clive

Waterloo Bridge (1931) Mae Clark, Douglas Montgomery, Bette Davis


  • Powell And Pressburger

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook


  • Preston Sturges

The Great McGinty (1940) Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, Muriel Angelus, William Demarest

The Lady Eve (1941) Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, William Demarest

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, William Demarest


  • Michael Curtiz

Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart

Does Bette Davis Ever Get Her Man? with a brief review of Kid Galahad

Revisiting Casablanca

Romance on the High Seas (1948) Doris Day, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, S.Z. Sakall

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Donald Crisp

We’re No Angels (1955) Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Basil Rathbone, Joan Bennett

White Christmas (1954) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen


  • Raoul Walsh

Colorado Territory (1949) Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo

Desperate Journey (1942) Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan , Raymond Massey, Alan Hale

Distant Drums (1951) Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Arthur Hunnicutt

Gentleman Jim (1942) Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale

White Heat (1949) James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmund O’Brien, Margaret Wycherly


  • William Wyler

The Letter (1940) Bette Davis, James Stephenson, Herbert Marshall, Gale Sondergaard

The Little Foxes (1941) Bette Davis, Theresa Wright, Dan Durya, Richard Carlson, Herbert Marshall

Wuthering Heights (1939)  Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Davis Niven


 

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