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  1. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    1935's Mutiny on the Bounty, with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Viva Zapata! (1952), dir. Elia Kazan, with Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, and Joseph (Dr. No) Wiseman. When Worlds Collide, the screen version of the 1933 novel, with Richard Derr and Barbara Rush, brought to us in...
  2. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A Carol for Another Christmas, an ABC network made-for-television movie from 1964. Rod Serling revises the Charles Dickens classic for the Cold War era nuclear war fear and the isolation mindset prevalent in those times. Several key components from the original are retained- a nephew named Fred...
  3. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Bringing the Shellhammer Mansion Binge-fest and Continual Soiree up to date, it was 1953's Bad for Each Other, starring Charlton Heston, noir icon Lizabeth Scott, and Dianne Foster. Sort of a mash-up of a 1930s medical drama where a society doctor gets rich and powerful by catering to Park...
  4. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The other day it was The Saint in Palm Springs (1940), with George Sanders as the titular character, Wendy Barrie as the daughter of a fellow who has $200,00 in rare stamps, Jonathan Hale as Inspector Fernack, and Paul Guilfoyle as a former pickpocket trying to go straight. Through a series of...
  5. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Sabrina (1954) with Bogie, Audrey, and a blond Bill Holden. AA for Edith Mode Head for costume design. Directed by Billy Wilder from a screen play by Wilder, Samuel Taylor, and Ernest Lehman. If you have seen it, you know it is a rom-com, a semi-farce, and a fairy tale, with the whimsey and...
  7. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Things to Come (1936) a film adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1933 book The Shape of Things to Come, a "future history" of a world devastated by war, and the restoration of civilization by airmen and scientists. The film generally follows the book's theme. Directed by William Cameron Menzies, with...
  8. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Informer (1935), directed by John Ford, with Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster. Four Academy Awards: best actor, director, screenplay, score. A masterful film, set in 1922 Ireland, with McLaglen as a slow on the uptake member of the lower classes, who has been put out of the...
  9. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Man Who Died Twice (1958), directed by Joseph Kane (who was behind the camera for In Old Sacramento, Song of Nevada, and The Yellow Rose of Texas), and starring Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, and Mike Mazurski. Here I insert IMDb's synopsis in full: Nightclub owner T.J. Brennon dies in a car...
  10. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Your earlier comments are well-put, FF; The Dark Corner is a solid noir, but for an introduction to the genre perhaps something along the lines of Out of the Past would be better.
  11. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Dark Corner (1946), a superb noir with Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix , and Mark Stevens, directed by Henry Hathaway. Classic noir visuals, with high contrast lighting, geometric shapes formed by light cutting into a room from a window, shadows carrying the storyline cast on...
  13. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Recent views at the stately Shellhammer Fete du Film include The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) with George Sanders, and a minor appearance of Bela Lugosi; Jonathan Hale returns in his role as Inspector Fernack. Directed by Jack Hively, who helmed a couple other productions in the franchise. As...
  14. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Egg and I (1947) with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. WW2 vet MacMurray and new bride Colbert face challenging challenges on a chicken farm way out in the country. Based on the book by Betty MacDonald. Is it a screwball comedy? A rom-com? A live...
  15. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Gentleman's Agreement (1947), with Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and John Garfield, dir. Elia Kazan. A look at anti-semitism, with the story told as a reporter's series in a prominent magazine. Reporter Peck presents himself as Jewish in order to experience the bigotry both subtle and violent...
  16. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Prince and the Pauper (1937) directed by William Keighley (who would later work on The Adventures of Robin Hood), featuring top-billed Errol Flynn, and actual twins Billy and Bobby Mauch, with Claude Rains doing his "power-hungry court intriguer" bit with poise. Flynn shows up about half-way...
  17. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Here at the Shellhammer Palais du Film Ancien, it was- The Saint Takes Over (1940) with George Sanders as the Saint, Wendy Barrie as an elegant but tough mystery person on a mission, and Jonathan Hale as Inspector Henry Furnace of the NYPD. Fernack's been framed by mobsters, Wendy Barrie...
  19. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    An odd offering, starting out as a 30s/40s rom-com, then grim manslaughter tale, then melodramatic drama as only classic Hollywood could produce, is And One Was Beautiful (1940), with headliners Robert Cummings and Laraine Day under the direction of Robert B. Sinclair, who brought us such varied...
  20. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein, via YT. Flash cuts, massive crowd scenes, striking shot compositions, this has it all. The movie nerd lingers on... The Saint in London (1939), brought to us by John Paddy Carstairs, with George Sanders and Sally Gray. We're trying to watch...
  21. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    As well, decades since I read a "Saint" book. I remember checking a copy out of the local library not long after reading all the Sherlock Holmes I could find, then beginning to work through Chandler, Van Dine, Stout, and Hammett. Simon Templar was only peripherally known to me, sort of via the...
  22. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Saint in New York (1938) dir. Ben Holmes, with Louis Hayward at the Saint, Kay Sutton as a mysterious character tied up with a criminal organization, and Jack Carson and Paul Guilfoyle as a pair of Mutt and Jeff thugs played a la Damon Runyon. With crime running rampant through a large...
  23. Julian Shellhammer

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Eyes in the Night (1942) starring Edward Arnold as Capt. Duncan Mclain, a blind detective who solves mysteries with the help of his dog, Friday (who out-Rin-tin-tins Rin-tin-tin in some skill sets). Supposedly the first in a projected series, it did not catch on. With Ann Harding, playing a...

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