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Breakfast for TwoDVD ~ Barbara Stanwyck- In Stock.
List Price: $17.99 Price: $14.99 You Save: $3.00 (17%) "Pub Crawler takes on wealthy heiress in GREAT screwball comedy~ FUN~" - By Molly (Goshen, IN, United States)
Pubcrawler and nearly broke Herbert Marshall wakes up with a lovely girl in his BED~ LOL
after a night of PUB CRAWLING nearly broke Herbert Marshall has lovely (BARBARA STANWYCK) end up in his bed~ HE is sound asleep on the sofa and does not know WHO she is just that she brought him home. The fun here is the BUTLER (excellent ERIC BLORE)hiding how broke Blair (Marshall ) really is. Soon Valentine Ransome (Stanwycke) decides the down and out is worth saving and buys his nearly broke steam ship line. She tries to anger him into saving the company and taking an interest in her at the same time. BUT Blair is off to marry his chlorine bimbo steady CAROL for her money. The humor is good and the comedy laughs do not stop~ one of the BEST scenes is when BLAIR and Valentine put on Boxing gloves ... full review(9) -
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"Utterly charming little known gem" - By Fernando Silva (Santiago de Chile.)
Marvelous comedy starring the great Margaret Sullavan, who is excellent as a naive girl who goes out of the orphanage where she has lived all of her life (in Budapest), to work as an usherette in a lavish cinema owned by Mr. Schlapkohl (Alan Hale), eventually becoming "the good fairy" to an arrogant and very moralistic lawyer, expertly played by Herbert Marshall, in an un-typical role.
Frank Morgan is excellent too as the millionaire who's after Sullavan and, unknowingly, gives her the chance to be a "good fairy". Also, there's an hilarious performance by the great character actor Reginald Owen, as the waiter of a luxurious hotel, who befriends Sullavan and tries to save her from Morgan's clutches.
This is the type of movie they do not make anymore, flawless, charming, enchanting, with lovable characters, thanks to Preston Sturges' wonderful script and William Wyler's deft direction..... Morgan and Sullavan "visited" ... full review(36) -
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"NORMA SHEARER AT HER COOL, CHIC APEX!" - By CHUCK WEST
I had been trying to find "Riptide" for my video collection for some time. I really have to thank Amazon.com for providing me the opportunity to buy this out-of-print gem (and their great customer service department). Norma Shearer was a great actress on her own (despite the fact that she was wife of MGM's head of production, Irving Thalberg, a.k.a. Louis B. Mayer's "wonder boy"). In "Riptide," Shearer plays Mary, a free spirit Park Avenue socialite who, through her overly-developed sense of responsibility to an old flame, becomes inadvertantly embroiled in a tabloid-type scandal. While her proper English husband (Herbert Marshall) must travel to the U.S.A. on a working "no-wives-allowed" junket, Mary travels the Meditteranean with friends and is persuaded to help sober up her old flame (Robert Montgomery). Through the classic comedy-of-errors formula, he winds up drunkenly ... full review(11) -
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Cafe Metropole DVD (1937) & Girls' Dormitory (1936) / Tyrone Power Double Feature DVD /Ruth Chatterton, Herbert Marshall,Loretta Young, Adolphe MenjouDVD ~ Ruth Chatterton, Herbert Marshall, Loretta Young, Adolphe Menjou Tyrone Power- In Stock.
List Price: $39.99 Price: $9.95 You Save: $30.04 (75%) ""Kissing is very important at the first!"" - By CodeMaster Talon (Orlando, FL United States)
This double feature contains one forgettable film and one shimmering jewel; one film Tyrone Power barely appears in and one film where he was never better. First we'll discuss "Girl's Dormitory", and then onto the glorious "Cafe Metropole". Here we go!
GIRL'S DORMITORY
3.5 of out 5 stars
MILD SPOILERS (Believe me, you're not missing anything)
Please do not be misled by the unconscionable description on the DVD; Tyrone Power has two minutes of screen time in this film, and figures in the plot not at all. The story chronicles the overwrought adventures of Marie (played by very pretty, snubbed-nosed Simone Simon) in an all girl's school. Every girl in the school has a crush on the school director Dr. Stephen (Herbert Marshall, not his best work), but Marie takes it a step further by writing an imaginary love letter (which we never get to hear, but supposedly ... full review(10) -
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"The High Wall" - By Brian
The movie starts with ex WW2 hero Steven Kenet(Robert Taylor)driving with the body of his dead wife,Helen(Dorothy Patrick)next to him.Steve believes he murdered her but is trying to protect his young son,Bobby(Robert Hyatt).Everyone believes Steve is guilty.
Soon Steve is arrested and put into a mental institution.
DR Ann Lorrison(Audrey Totter)working on Steves case doesnt believe hes guilty and is slowly falling in love with him.
Williard I Whitcombe(Herbert Marshall)who was having an affair with Helen,wants Steve kept in the mental hospital at all costs.
Good Hitchcock type thriller.Film Noir at its very BEST.(13) -
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"I Was A Spy" - By Barbara (Oregon)
This 1933 film with three marvelous stars is of World War One. Conrad Veidt, being German born, always played the German commander and all his performances are excellent. Madeline Carrol finds herself drawn into the war as a nurse and further implicated to serve as a spy. What she discovers later is Herbert Marshall her co worker also is a spy and ultimately becomes the love of her life. Not a long movie, but entertaining. I love this age of movie and enjoyed it very much. Of course it is black and white, if that matters.(17)