Showing posts with label The Champions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Champions. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

The grim divorcee


EVERYTHING I HAVE IS YOURS

1952
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Written by George Wells and Ruth Brooks Flippen

Spoiler alert: I'd say moderate, some might say high

Sunday, February 14, 2021

It happens ev'ry time


GIVE A GIRL A BREAK

1953
Directed by Stanley Donen
Written by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Vera Caspary

Spoiler alert: moderate

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Hannibal ante portas


JUPITER'S DARLING

1955
Directed by George Sidney
Written by Dorothy Kingsley (based on the play The Road to Rome by Robert Sherwood)

Spoiler alert: unless you're somehow surprised to learn that Rome won the Second Punic War, actually quite mild

Monday, January 11, 2021

All I ask is just one more chance—just one more dance?


LOVELY TO LOOK AT

1952
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy and Vincente Minelli
Written by George Wells and Harry Ruby (based on the musical play Roberta by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Deur Miller)

Spoiler alert: moderate