H.C. POTTER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1938. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Original story by Leo McCarey, Frank R. Adams, Screenplay by S.N. Behrman, Sonya Levien. Cinematography by Gregg Toland. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day. Costume Design by Omar Kiam. Film Editing by Sherman Todd. …
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The House of Rothschild (1934)
ALFRED L. WERKER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. USA, 1934. 20th Century Pictures. Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, based on a play by George Hembert Westley. Cinematography by J. Peverell Marley. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day. Costume Design by Gwen Wakeling. Film Editing by Barbara McLean,…
Tin Pan Alley (1940)
WALTER LANG Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. USA, 1940. Twentieth Century Fox. Screenplay by Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, based on a story by Pamela Harris. Cinematography by Leon Shamroy. Produced by Kenneth Macgowan. Music by Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright. Costume Design by Travis Banton. …
Call Me Madam (1953)
WALTER LANG Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. USA, 1953. Twentieth Century Fox. Screenplay by Arthur Sheekman, based on the musical by Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsey. Cinematography by Leon Shamroy. Produced by Sol C. Siegel. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by John DeCuir, Lyle R. Wheeler. Costume Design by Irene Sharaff. Film Editing by…
David And Bathsheba (1951)
HENRY KING Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. USA, 1951. Twentieth Century Fox. Screenplay by Philip Dunne. Cinematography by Leon Shamroy. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler. Costume Design by Edward Stevenson. Film Editing by Barbara McLean. King David, played in some pretty…
The Hurricane (1937)
JOHN FORD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBBB. USA, 1937. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols, adaptation by Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall. Cinematography by Bert Glennon. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day. Costume Design by Omar Kiam. Film Editing by Lloyd Nosler. This excellent John…
Arrowsmith (1931)
JOHN FORD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. USA, 1931. John Ford Productions. Screenplay by Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. Cinematography by Ray June. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day. Film Editing by Hugh Bennett. Ronald Colman is terrific in this adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’ novel about economic pressures in the…
The Pied Piper (1942)
IRVING PICHEL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. USA, 1942. Twentieth Century Fox. Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. Cinematography by Edward Cronjager. Produced by Nunnally Johnson. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day, Maurice Ransford. Costume Design by Dolly Tree. Film Editing by Allen McNeil. Monty Woolley is a Brit enjoying a vacation in France after most…
Dead End (1937)
WILLIAM WYLER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.5. USA, 1937. The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Screenplay by Lillian Hellman, based on the play by Sidney Kingsley. Cinematography by Gregg Toland. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by Richard Day. Costume Design by Omar Kiam. Film Editing by Daniel Mandell. Compelling adaptation of the play by Sidney Kingsley, with most of the…
Wilson (1944)
HENRY KING Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1944. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Screenplay by Lamar Trotti. Cinematography by Leon Shamroy, Ernest Palmer. Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by James Basevi, Wiard Ihnen. Costume Design by Rene Hubert. Film Editing by Barbara McLean. Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck really put his back into the studio’s prestige…
The Robe (1953)
HENRY KOSTER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. USA, 1953. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Screenplay by Albert Maltz, Philip Dunne, adaptation by Gina Kaus, based on the novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. Cinematography by Leon Shamroy. Produced by Frank Ross. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler. Costume Design by Emile Santiago. Film Editing by Barbara McLean. Academy…
How The West Was Won (1962)
JOHN FORD, HENRY HATHAWAY, GEORGE MARSHALL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1962. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinerama Productions Corp.. Screenplay by James R. Webb, suggested by his Life Magazine series “How The West Was Won”. Cinematography by William H. Daniels, Milton R. Krasner, Charles Lang, Joseph LaShelle. Produced by Bernard Smith. Music by Alfred Newman. Production Design by George W. Davis, William Ferrari,…
