The Secret Garden (1949)
FRED M. WILCOX Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. USA, 1949. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Screenplay by Robert Ardrey, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Cinematography by Ray June. Produced by Clarence Brown. Music by Bronislau Kaper. Production Design by Cedric … Continue reading
Chasers
BB (out of 5) In this loose remake of The Last Detail, Navy boys William McNamara and Tom Berenger are assigned to escort Barbie-doll prisoner Erika Eleniak across the country to her … Continue reading
Gentleman’s Agreement
BBB (out of 5) Gregory Peck decides to research anti-Semitism for his newspaper by taking up residence under a Jewish name and seeing how he is treated by others in his … Continue reading
Anchors Aweigh
BBB.5 (out of 5) Lightweight musical that isn’t as memorable as Gene Kelly‘s later navy-themed On The Town. He and Frank Sinatra (who co-starred with Kelly in the aforementioned Stanley Donen … Continue reading
Dune
B (out of 5) Frank Herbert’s immensely popular science-fiction novel (the first in a series) has been turned into an unfortunate clunker of a film, helmed quite badly by David … Continue reading
Blue Velvet
BBBBB (out of 5) Despite already being an Academy Award nominee (for The Elephant Man) and popular among the art-house crowd (for Eraserhead), David Lynch’s career as master of the … Continue reading
