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Navy Blues (1929)

Directed by Clarence Brown and starring William Haines, Anita Page and Karl Dane, this early sound film has a runtime of 75 mins and the print quality is very good.

Plot: On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she storms out of the house determined to live on her own. She believes that her new boyfriend will marry her, but when he admits that he's not the marrying kind and then goes back to sea, she feels hurt and rejected and her life goes into a downward spiral.

Review: William Haines, the eternal mischief maker, strikes again as a sailor on two-day leave who after much effort sweeps innocent young Anita Page off her feet. There isn't much to this routine boy-meets-girl story other than another manic performance by Haines, whose antics admittedly are a matter of taste, and the winsome presence of Page, who is given relatively little to do but react to her dominant male co-star. Three Fred Ahlert-Roy Turk songs are featured: the title song – the least of the bunch - which is sung at various points by individuals and a poorly miked large ensemble, as well as snatches of "Mean to Me" and "I'll Get By" played by dance bands. The shipboard sequences with Haines, Karl Dane and others, intended as rowdy comedy, may have amused audiences in 1929 but they drag now, though Haines does manage to squeeze some laughs out of the material through sheer persistence….£7.49

 

Neath Arizona Skies (1934)

Starring John Wayne. Chris Morrell, the guardian of Indian girl Nina, is helping her track down her missing father. Until he is found, she is the heir to a rich oil field and in danger from Sam Black, whose gang is out to steal the lands. The outlaws knock out Chris and dress him in the clothes of a wanted bank robber. When Chris awakes, he discovers that now he must continue the quest while running from the law himself....£7.49

 

Nest of Gentry, A aka Dvoryanskoe gnezdo (1969)

Directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy and starring Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyszkiewicz and Tamara Chernova, this film has a runtime of 105 mins and the print quality is excellent. This is a Russian language film with English subtitles.

Plot: Lavretsky returns to his estate after stay in Paris.Frustrated with life,in his wife's unfair, he falls in love with Lisa. Suddenly the arriving of Fëdors woman which before has been reported the death, completes the simple love.

Review: This movie manages to deliver a mood of the Turgenev's novel, but the director added also his own vision of the Russian life in the 19th century. All elements, all components of successful movie are presented in this work -- scenery based on literary classics,nice cinematography, excellent direction, beautiful performance by all actors, unforgettable music, and amazing Russian landscapes. This is one of those movie which i like to watch again and again, and every time i will find something new, something that will touch my soul. It is a clever movie made with sincere love of Russia. What i would like to emphasize particularly is the nice women shot in this movie, beautiful actresses -- Irina Kupchenko and Beata Tyshkevitch, one can easily fall in love with, as it happened to the director, as i know from his reminiscences. i give 9,5 of 10 to this masterpiece, the excellent exemplary of how classics has to be brought to screen….£7.49

 

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford, The (1931)

Starring William Haines, Jimmy Durante and Ernest Torrence this film has a runtime of 94 mins and the print quality is good.

Plot: Wallingford is a con-man whose specialty is taking money from suckers. His partners are Schnozzle, a pickpocket and car thief; and Blackie, who has played the game for years. Jimmy's latest deal involves land and a clay pot factory in a small town. When he has the money in hand from a number of investors, he decides to go legitimate when he falls for Dorothy - the girl through whom he is working the con.

Review: In 1931 William Haines was still a top 5 box office star and it's easy to see why with this fast and funny talkie version of GET RICH QUICK WALLINGFORD, which was filmed in 1921 with Sam Hardy.Haines is perfectly cast as the fast-talking conman who meets his match in Leila Hyams. It's love at first sight for Haines as he and his team (Jimmy Durante and Ernest Torrence) descend on a small town so he can pursue Hyams and swindle the local banker, who is trying to swindle Hyams' father.
The entire cast is quite good in this early talkie and Haines is very handsome and funny as he maneuvers his swindle and closes in on Hyams. Durante is funny is a very early film role. Torrence, a big star character actor in silent films (DESERT NIGHTS) is also excellent here. Hyams is beautiful.
Co-stars include Guy Kibbee as the cop, Clara Blandick and Walter Walker as the parents, Hale Hamilton as the banker, Rober McWade as Tuttle, Henry Armetta as the barber, Lucy Beaumont as the cleaning lady, Charles Moore as the shoeshine boy, and Edwin Maxwell as the telegram boss.
This is a rare film but worth looking for to see the great William Haines in his prime…..£7.49

 

New Gulliver, The aka Novyy Gulliver (1935)

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko and starring Vladimir Konstantinov, Ivan Yudin and Ivan Bobrov, this film has a runtime of 73 mins and the print quality is very good to excellent. This is a Russian language film with English subtitles.

Plot: While hearing the story of "Gulliver's Travels", a young Russian boy dreams that he is the title character on the island of Lilliput.

Review: THE NEW GULLIVER is, as the title would suggest, a Russian fantasy based on the world created by Jonathan Swift in his GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. After a slightly laborious prologue, the story is about a young Russian boy who falls asleep to dream that he's in Lilliput and engaging with its miniature citizens.
What's amazing about this film is that for most of the running time it's packed to the brim with stop motion effects to animate the citizens of the city. The stop motion is a little rugged and rough around the edges - as you'd expect from a production made in the 1930s - but otherwise solid and thoroughly engaging. A lot of attention to detail has been made in crafting the faces and features of these little guys, and they even have teeth showing in their mouths every now and then.
The humour is quite surreal as is the situation, but you only have to stop and imagination the effort having gone into the film to enjoy it. At times the story reminds you of the old British kid's show TRUMPTON while towards the end shades of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS hang over the production in the depiction of the industrial complex. Inevitably as it's a communist production we see the put-upon workers rise up against their oppressors in a barely-disguised allegory. THE NEW GULLIVER is definitely a worthwhile watch….£7.49

 

Night At The Crossroads aka La Nuit de Carrefour (1932)

Directed by Jean Renoir and starring Pierre Renoir and Winna Winifried, this film has a runtime of 71 mins, the print quality is very good and the film is presented in the original French language with English subtitles. It is also notable as the very first screen adaptation of the Georges Simenon Maigret novels.

Review: This was the very first time a Georges Simenon novel was adapted for the screen - and to date there have been roughly 170 film and/or TV adaptations making him arguably the most film and TV friendly novelist of all time. It is perhaps fitting that the very first Simenon adaptation should also be the first Maigret movie for though he wrote many non-Maigret novels and many of THOSE have been filmed he will always be associated with Maigret in the mind of the public.
For 1932 this isn't a bad effort and Renoir is able to utilise ideas - night, fog, etc - that will later crystallise brilliantly in such classics as Quai des Brumes and he also had a knack for dividing the frame in unusual ways, for example, the scene - one of many - in the garage where a wheel is in the right foreground whilst a rope runs diagonally from left to right. The crossroads setting is suitably dank and even in daylight seems desolate and bleak. The plot is not unlike Agatha Christie, a Dutch diamond merchant is found murdered and Maigret, sent from Paris to investigate, encounters a typical motley crew of suspects and even uncovers links to organized crime in Paris before homing in on the truth. At this stage of course we had nothing and no one to measure Maigret against and Renoir's older brother, Pierre, makes a decent stab at the part though later Maigrets would drop the moustache he affects and Winna Winnifried - in the first of what would be only seven films - gives an extraordinary performance as a sort of sensual virgin and manages to come across as highly erotic even whilst handicapped by a high-necked floor length black gown. On balance this is a fine example of early thirties French cinema….£7.49

 

No Limit (1931)

Starring Clara Bow. Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.... £7.49

 

No Limit (1935)

Starring George Formby and Florence Desmond. George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.... £7.49

 

No Man Of Her Own (1932)

Directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and Dorothy Mackail, this film has a runtime of 78 mins and the print quality is OK to Good.

Storyline: Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city. Gable continues his gambling/cheating scheme unbeknownst to Lombard. When she discovers his "other life", she presures him to quit. Gable feels crowded and tells her that he is leaving for South America. In fact, Gable has decided he wants to go straight and turns himself in to the cop...

Review: This is a pleasant kind of tale, easygoing and amusing. Clark Gable as the gambler Babe Stewart, meets quiet (i.e. repressed) librarian Connie Randall, played by Carole Lombard. At the library, when he corners her amongst the bookshelves, she asks, "Do you like Shakespeare?" and I like Gable's reply, "Oh Shakespeare's alright but sometimes you just don't feel like Shakespeare" says he gazing deep into her eyes. Just an amusing moment.
After a hesitant start they inevitably fall in love and impulsively decide to wed, and thereafter the plot unfolds. Gable resumes his dishonest card sniping activities (i.e. racket), however this clashes with the wifey on the domestic front. In time he plans to reform his ways, "Things gotta be different from now on," he tells the police, but there are complications ahead.
It's very interesting to see a younger Clark Gable who even at this stage was well established in his screen presence. And Carole Lombard couldn't be more beautiful! Great viewing for the fans of Gable and Lombard….£7.49

 

No More Orchids (1932)

Starring Carole Lombard, Lyle Talbot and Walter Connolly, the film has a runtime of 67 mins and the print quality is very good.

Plot: At the urging of her curmudgeon old grandfather Jerome Cedric (C. Aubrey Smith), spoiled rich kid Annie Holt (Carole Lombard) is forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father, Bill Holt (Walter Connolly), from financial ruin. The man she really desires is Tony Gage (Lyle Talbot). It takes a well-written insurance policy and a sacrificial act on the part of a close relative to re-unite Annie and Tony.

Review: Interesting, if a tad bit strange, drama about a rich brat (Carole Lombard) who falls in love with an average guy (Lyle Talbot) but her greedy grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith) forces her to marry a rich Prince so that her father will be saved from his debt. NO MORE ORCHIDS isn't a very well known film and even fans of Lombard seems to have never seen it. That's a shame because it turned out to be a pretty good gem even if the final ten-minutes are extremely bizarre and in the end they really don't work. The film benefits from a very strong screenplay as well as some strong performances. The actual story of this thing is the type of melodrama that had been going on throughout the silent era and would continue throughout the 30s as we have the bad girl falling for a good guy only to be forced into the arms of someone else. What makes it seem so fresh and original here is that the screenplay is smart enough to actually make for some nice dialogue scenes where everything plays out in a believable fashion. This includes several scenes of Lombard having to really think through her decision and this makes for some very good drama. The screenplay is smart enough to make her character more than just a single note and the viewer certainly benefits from this. Lombard does a very good job as she was perfectly capable of playing the brat side of this woman but we also believe her when the character slowly starts to change due to her feelings for Talbot. As for Talbot, he too turns in another winning performance as does Walter Connolly as the father and Louise Closser Hale nearly steals the film as the fast-talking grandma. Smith turns in his typical fine performance as well. Fans of pre-code will be happy to see some rather risky dialogue about Lombard not being a virgin and we even get a sequence where she takes her rob off and is standing around in her bra and panties. Not too shocking in today's age but this was 1932 after all. The film takes a rather obvious twist towards the end and I think what the father does, which I won't ruin, doesn't work at all. The screenplay tries to milk this sequence for everything it's worth but I felt it fell flat on its face and didn't pack the punch it was going for. Even so, NO MORE ORCHIDS is still a fine little film that deserves to be seen by more…..£7.49

 

No One Man (1932)

Directed by Lloyd Corrigan and starring Carole Lombard, Ricardo Cortez, Paul Lucas, Juliette Compton, George Barbier this film has a runtime of 72 mins and the print quality is good to very good.

Plot: When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to….£7.49

 

Nothing Sacred (1937)

Wonderful comedy starring Carole Lombard. To redeem himself after a hoax, reporter Wallace Cook proposes a series of stories on doomed Hazel Flagg. Hazel discovers she really doesn't have radium poisoning, but still accepts the big fling in New York that Cook offers her. At first, she has a great time, but complications arise when she and Wally fall in love, and a German specialist discovers that Hazel is faking. Review: An unscrupulous reporter takes advantage of a small town girl's supposed imminent death in order to manipulate the public and gain more sales. Lombard however is not that imminent to death and she turns the tables and takes advantage of the situation. Plays as well today as more than sixty years later which proves that while the people may have changed the media stays the same. A good biting satire.... £7.49

 

Now And Forever (1934)

Directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing and Henry Kolker, this film has a runtime of 82 mins and the print quality excellent.

Plot: Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Despite the responsibility of his new family, Jerry is swayed by the corruptible influence of jewelry thief Felix Evans. When Evans lures Jerry into a job, it puts the continuation of his new family life at risk.

Review: Even longtime Shirley fans may be surprised by "Now and Forever." The movie was filmed with Paramount studios – not with Shirley's parent company Twentieth Century Fox – in 1934, before Fox producer Darryl Zanuck had perfected the successful Shirley formula (cute songs, cold hearts for her to melt, young couples for her to play cupid to, happy endings). Thus "Now and Forever" falls into the category of a Shirley vehicle without the standard Shirley story. It is an awkward position for any movie, but this impressive, talented cast makes it work.
Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard star as fun-loving, irresponsible con artists Jerry and Toni Day. The only thing that this devoted yet dysfunctional duo seems to hate more than being together is being apart. When they are suddenly landed with custody of Jerry's young daughter Penny (Shirley Temple), it is Toni – and not Penny, as many believe – who persuades Jerry to give up his criminal career. But Jerry flounders at his desk job, and desperate to prove that he can provide for his new family, he soon returns to thieving and dishonesty. In a standard Shirley device, Penny tries to melt the heart of crusty curmudgeon Felix Evans, the victim of one of Jerry's cons, but her attempt fails, for Evans is revealed to be a con artist himself, and he blackmails Jerry into helping him steal jewels. The drama, gunfight, death, and sorrow that follow all make this film a very unusual one for Little Miss Sunshine. There is no happy ending, no dancing, and only one song sequence (the cute number "The World Owes Me a Living").
But this does not mean that Shirley fans should avoid "Now and Forever." Rather, it's divergence from the usual Shirley story make it more interesting and memorable than many of her other films. But beware: You should avoid colorized version of this film, and see it in black-and-white if you can. The color is bright, garish, and unrealistic, and in many scenes, Shirley's famous curls are actually red instead of blonde. Yikes!...£7.49

 

 

Number 17 (1932)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, then they are running away from police. It will not be easy for the detective to recover the jewel..... £7.49

 

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