Gabriel Over the White House
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The Warner Archive Collection
1933 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 86, 102 min. / Street Date October 20, 2009 / available through the Warner Archive Collection / 17.99
Starring: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore, C. Henry Gordon, David Landau, Samuel S. Hinds, Jean Parker, Mischa Auer.
Cinematography: Bert Glennon
Film Editor: Basil Wrangell
Original Music: Dr. William Axt
Written by: Carey Wilson, from a book by T. F. Tweed
Produced by: William Randolph Hearst, Walter Wanger
Directed by Gregory La Cava
A Review Revisit.
The unique political fantasy Gabriel Over the White House has become painfully topical lately. This is an update of a 2009 review. To my knowledge nothing has changed with the product — I saw a re-promotion of Twilight Time’s 1984 disc and thought, Gabriel is twice as relevant and at least as scary.
Unstable times in America have produced some pretty strange political-religious message pictures.
DVD-r
The Warner Archive Collection
1933 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 86, 102 min. / Street Date October 20, 2009 / available through the Warner Archive Collection / 17.99
Starring: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore, C. Henry Gordon, David Landau, Samuel S. Hinds, Jean Parker, Mischa Auer.
Cinematography: Bert Glennon
Film Editor: Basil Wrangell
Original Music: Dr. William Axt
Written by: Carey Wilson, from a book by T. F. Tweed
Produced by: William Randolph Hearst, Walter Wanger
Directed by Gregory La Cava
A Review Revisit.
The unique political fantasy Gabriel Over the White House has become painfully topical lately. This is an update of a 2009 review. To my knowledge nothing has changed with the product — I saw a re-promotion of Twilight Time’s 1984 disc and thought, Gabriel is twice as relevant and at least as scary.
Unstable times in America have produced some pretty strange political-religious message pictures.
- 2/4/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Richard Brooks' exciting Humphrey Bogart picture is one of the best newspaper sagas ever. An editor deals with a gangster threat and a domestic crisis even as greedy heirs are selling his paper out from under him. Commentator Eddie Muller drives home the film's essential civics lesson about what we've lost -- a functioning free press. Deadline - U.S.A. Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1952 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 87 min. / Street Date July 26, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Paul Stewart, Martin Gabel, Joe De Santis, Audrey Christie, Jim Backus, Willis Bouchey, Joseph Crehan, Lawrence Dobkin, John Doucette, Paul Dubov, William Forrest, Dabbs Greer, Thomas Browne Henry, Paul Maxey, Ann McCrea, Kasia Orzazewski, Tom Powers, Joe Sawyer, William Self, Phillip Terry, Carleton Young. Cinematography Milton Krasner Film Editor William B.Murphy Original Music Cyril J. Mockridge Produced by Sol C. Siegel...
- 9/2/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Robert Walker: Actor in MGM films of the '40s. Robert Walker: Actor who conveyed boy-next-door charms, psychoses At least on screen, I've always found the underrated actor Robert Walker to be everything his fellow – and more famous – MGM contract player James Stewart only pretended to be: shy, amiable, naive. The one thing that made Walker look less like an idealized “Average Joe” than Stewart was that the former did not have a vacuous look. Walker's intelligence shone clearly through his bright (in black and white) grey eyes. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” programming, Turner Classic Movies is dedicating today, Aug. 9, '15, to Robert Walker, who was featured in 20 films between 1943 and his untimely death at age 32 in 1951. Time Warner (via Ted Turner) owns the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library (and almost got to buy the studio outright in 2009), so most of Walker's movies have...
- 8/9/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Paul Henreid: Actor was ‘dependable’ leading man to Hollywood actresses Paul Henreid, best known as the man who wins Ingrid Bergman’s body but not her heart in Casablanca, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of July 2013. TCM will be showing a couple of dozen movies featuring Henreid, who, though never a top star, was a "dependable" — i.e., unexciting but available — leading man to a number of top Hollywood actresses of the ’40s, among them Bette Davis, Ida Lupino, Olivia de Havilland, Eleanor Parker, Joan Bennett, and Katharine Hepburn. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Paul Henreid movies to be shown on Turner Classic Movies in July consists of Warner Bros. productions that are frequently broadcast all year long, no matter who is TCM’s Star of the Month. Just as unfortunately, TCM will not present any of Henreid’s little-seen supporting performances of the ’30s, e.
- 7/3/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 14, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Van Heflin (l.) and Glenn Ford star in 1957's 3:10 to Yuma.
The beautifully shot and acted 1957 western movie 3:10 to Yuma was directed by Delmer Daves (Jubal).
Van Heflin (My Son John) stars as a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford (Gilda), to the train that will take him to prison. What begins as an apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man’s particular brand of honor.
Based on a story by Elmore Leonard (Freaky Deaky), the classic 3:10 to Yuma is considered to be one of the most psychologically complex and humane Westerns of its time—and certainly some than the 2007 remake starring Russell Crowe (Robin Hood) and Christian Bale (The Fighter), which is still available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Van Heflin (l.) and Glenn Ford star in 1957's 3:10 to Yuma.
The beautifully shot and acted 1957 western movie 3:10 to Yuma was directed by Delmer Daves (Jubal).
Van Heflin (My Son John) stars as a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw, played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford (Gilda), to the train that will take him to prison. What begins as an apparently simple plan turns into a nerve-racking cat-and-mouse game that will test each man’s particular brand of honor.
Based on a story by Elmore Leonard (Freaky Deaky), the classic 3:10 to Yuma is considered to be one of the most psychologically complex and humane Westerns of its time—and certainly some than the 2007 remake starring Russell Crowe (Robin Hood) and Christian Bale (The Fighter), which is still available on DVD and Blu-ray.
- 2/19/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Bing Crosby, Gene Lockhart, Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way Leo McCarey is Turner Classic Movies' Director of the Evening this Christmas. Considering that McCarey was an ardent Catholic, TCM has made a quite appropriate choice. Unfortunately, McCarey's anti-Red My Son John — despite the fact that the Bible plays a prominent role in that film — hasn't been included on the TCM film roster. Instead, TCM watchers will have the chance to check out Going My Way, Make Way for Tomorrow, Duck Soup, The Milky Way, Love Affair, and Once Upon a Honeymoon. The year Billy Wilder's film noir classic Double Indemnity was nominated for Best Picture — and Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis, and Otto Preminger's Laura weren't — McCarey's sappy, feel-good Going My Way was chosen as the Best Picture of 1944 by enough members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- 12/26/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Filmmakers have oftentimes recycled scenes from other movies. For instance,Leo McCarey's [not Sam Wood's] 1952 anti-communist drama My Son John used bits from Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train made the year before. Robert Walker, one of the stars in both movies, had died before filming on My Son John had been completed. Now, it sure looks like in Transformers: Dark of the Moon Michael Bay has used a scene — enhanced with new special effects — from Bay's own The Island, a 2005 dud at the domestic box office. Check out the clip above and see what you think. Transformers: Dark of the Moon features Shia Labeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (replacing Megan Fox), Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Oscar nominee John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Oscar winner Frances McDormand, John Turturro, Alan Tudyk, and Ken Jeong, in addition to the voices of Hugo Weaving, Robert Foxworth, Peter Cullen, and Leonard Nimoy as Sentinel Prime.
- 7/2/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Huang Jianxin and Han Sanping's Beginning of the Great Revival Political propaganda has always been a movie staple, from Rupert Julian's The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, made during World War I, and Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-glorifying Triumph of the Will to Leo McCarey's anti-Red My Son John and Huang Jianxin and Han Sanping's pro-Red Beginning of the Great Revival. Featuring an all-star that includes John Woo, Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun, Chow Yun-fat, and Curse of the Golden Flower's Liu Ye as Mao Zedong, Beginning of the Great Revival had its premiere today as part of commemorations for the 90th anniversary of the [...]...
- 6/8/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Above: "I am not now nor have I ever been..." Yes, they actually do that scene.
Since The Forgotten is a home not only to the films that Time forgot, but to films maudit of all stripes and political hues, it seems like maybe the only place that will have Leo McCarey's unfortunate and frequently dislikable My Son John, although the welcome we can offer it is still a somewhat frosty one, as you can already tell. Made in 1952, it's a pop-eyed red scare propaganda bomb that segues from domestic comedy to film noir.
Plot: Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson (Dean Jagger, Helen Hayes), proud parents of two boys shipping off to Korea to fight, have a third son (Robert Walker), university educated and suddenly a source of concern due to his questioning of the values of church and family. Has he turned commie? Such a concept, playing on the...
Since The Forgotten is a home not only to the films that Time forgot, but to films maudit of all stripes and political hues, it seems like maybe the only place that will have Leo McCarey's unfortunate and frequently dislikable My Son John, although the welcome we can offer it is still a somewhat frosty one, as you can already tell. Made in 1952, it's a pop-eyed red scare propaganda bomb that segues from domestic comedy to film noir.
Plot: Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson (Dean Jagger, Helen Hayes), proud parents of two boys shipping off to Korea to fight, have a third son (Robert Walker), university educated and suddenly a source of concern due to his questioning of the values of church and family. Has he turned commie? Such a concept, playing on the...
- 3/19/2010
- MUBI
Casino Royale (2006) Sunday, 3 p.m., USA Daniel Craig gives us darker, sexier, more thuggish Bond, James Bond — and man! —does it work. We’re taken back to the beginning when Bond is given his first assignment as 007, which involves a high-stakes poker game with a terrorist banker, a beautiful woman (Eva Green) and danger galore! Beautiful women, casinos and danger? You’re kidding! Baby Doll (1956) Monday, 10 p.m., TCM Karl Malden plays Archie, a southern cotton gin owner who...
- 1/17/2010
- by By LINDA STASI
- NYPost.com
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