Showing posts with label Clark Gable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clark Gable. Show all posts

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Every other man took you at your own price—nothing!


SUSAN LENOX (HER FALL AND RISE)

1931
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Written by Leon Gordon, Zelda Sears, Edith Fitzgerald, and Wanda Tuchock, as well as, in an uncredited capacity, something approaching half the staff of MGM (based on the novel by David Graham Phillips)

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The Encyclopedia Brown: Those magnificent men in their flying machines


NIGHT FLIGHT

1933
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, John Monk Saunders, and Wells Root (based on the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, May 22, 2023

The Encyclopedia Brown: Anything's easy for a woman


POSSESSED

1931
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by Lenore J. Coffee (based on the play The Mirage by Edgar Selwyn)

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

The Encyclopedia Brown: Ace attorney


A FREE SOUL

1931
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by John Meehan and Becky Gardiner (based on the play by Willard Mack based on the book by Adela Rogers St. Johns)

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, May 8, 2022

To conscript a thief


THEY MET IN BOMBAY

1941
Directed by Clarence Brown
Written by John H. Kafka and Edwin Justus Mayer

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, September 29, 2014

Atlanta's still there, should we try again?


GONE WITH THE WIND

The prettiest two weeks I ever spent trapped and hungry in a theater.

1939
Directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood, and to, some extent or another, William Cameron Menzies
Written by Sidney Howard et al (based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell)
With Vivien Leigh (Scarlett Butler, aka Scarlett Kennedy, aka Scarlett Hamilton, nee Scarlett O'Hara), Clark Gable (Rhett Butler), Olivia De Havilland (Melanie Hamilton), Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Hattie McDaniel (Mammy), and some kind of racist cartoon named "Butterfly McQueen" (Prissy)

Spoiler alert: I don't give a damn (ha ha)