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Video Trailers from picks on TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies
Entries in Saturday Night at the Movies 2008 (33)
Father of the Bride (1950) Video Trailer
"Father of the Bride" (1950) IMDb
with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor provides an interesting look
into the subject of marriage, weddings and father/daughter
relationships. Joan Bennett plays the bride to be's mother and Don
Taylor the prospective groom. A very young Liz Taylor makes for a
convincing first-time bride while Tracy hams it up in the role of the
doting daddy. While
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Catherine Savard
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It Happened One Night *1934) Video Trailer
Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable define “Capraesque” in this madcap Depression era comedy that marries glamour and glitz to populist sentiment. Tag along for a wild ride with this TVO Saturday Night at the Movies special on Frank Capra’s classic Hollywood film .
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The Good Old Bad Old Days
I sometimes wonder if my grandmother would have gone to see a film like “It Happened One Night” at the movie theatre. I look at black and white photos with the funny old hats and the rattletrap black Model Ts and chuckle. . .
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Related Reading:
- Bible quiz time: Did the original story of the walls of Jericho occur in the book of Exodus (apologies to Paul Newman), Deuteronomy, or Joshua (not the guy with the bad hair in Cecil B. De Mille production)
- The junk in the trunk: How the stuff you forgot to unpack after the honeymoon was over can skuttle even the best of relationships
- “Yes, but will she still respect you in the morning?” Respect in communication as a missing ingredient.
- Director/producer Frank Capra was the originator of the “one man, one film” concept. Whose name gets top billing on your life’s story?
Catherine Savard
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Kiss of Death (1947) Video Trailer
“Kiss of Death” (1947)INDb starring Victor Mature with Karl Malden is overshadowed by the Tommy Udo character played by Richard Widmark. Widmark is unforgettable as the sneering psychopath who inhabits this film. The movie is constructed so that we’re supposed to cheer for the ex-con, Nick Bianco (Mature) and his new love (Coleen Gray) as they try to make a new life for their family far away from the criminal past. Suspense builds as Tommy Udo swears revenge on Nick Bianco for turning him in to the police and then goes on the 
hunt for his family. It ends up that it’s Widmark who makes an indelible impression on people’s minds and on film history, and not the “good guy” who gets the girl and the happy ending.
See the SNAM blog authored by Thom Ernst on a dedication to the recently passed Richard Widmark.
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Catherine Savard
in 1940s movies, Drama, Karl Malden, Richard Widmark, Saturday Night at the Movies 2008, Saturday Night at the Movies 2009, Victor Mature, Video Trailers, crime drama
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Laura (1944) Video Trailers
Picture Perfect
Gene Tierney’s breathtaking beauty in the title role adds to the performance of the ensemble cast accompanied by the memorable score composed by David Raksin. It all goes together to make this unforgettable classy film noir classic. TVOntario’s Interviews, (Aug.18,’07) include contributions from the leading man, Dana Andrews and director, Otto Preminger. The Interviews contain revelations into the evolution of this wonderful film that are almost as enjoyable as the plot reversals contained in the film itself .
. . . In the opening scene of the film, we first meet Laura through taking a virtual walking tour of her home. In the days before “video visits” in online real estate listings, it must have been something of a novelty to inspect the interior of another person’s home in their absence through the camera lens – a kind of early video voyeurism . . .
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Catherine Savard
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Video Trailer
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) IMDb stars Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds. Mr. Deeds is a young man whose amazing abilities include writing poetry for greeting cards, playing the tuba in the town band, and giving away millions of dollars. Jean Arthur is the worldly-wise newspaper reporter, Babe Bennett, who is eventually undone by the unassuming ways of Mr. Deeds. It's an entertaining Frank Capra movie still well worth the price of admission if you are into "oldies", romantic comedy and don't mind the slightly syrupy, "pixilated" point of view of a Depression era film.
Drill down into the Frank Capra Flick that also ran on TVOntario's SNAM: "It Happened One Night". See the Midnight Oil review of this film.
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