ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[memento]

[Meryl]

Starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert

The misadventures of a woman press photographer and an engineer who fall in love and find their careers conflict on an assignment.

Quote from screenplay:

    * Katherine Grant: Oh, you---you coward! Kissing a woman!
    * Jim Ryan: What am I supposed to kiss?

[MaineWriter]

==comment==

Nominated for the Best Picture Oscar but didn't win. According to IMDb trivia, this is the last movie nominated for only one Oscar. Interesting!

Here's a comment from Win Martin at IMDb:

"The Ox-Bow Incident" joins films like "12 Angry Men" to become one of the great "moral" films. In it's short 75 minutes, it manages to deal with themes of death, justice, and vengeance with realism and gravity. It also remains surprisingly immediate; though the film was made in 1943, it seems barely dated. Henry Fonda's performance (his best, in my opinion) is just as grounded and natural as always, without some of the theatricality that was the style of the times. This was one of the rare Westerns to truly transcend the genre - to appeal to a wider and more demanding audience.

[Fran]

A "User Comment" from IMDb:

"Can you do better than opera arias by Nelson Eddy and a classic performance by Claude Rains?  I think not."

[Ellemeno]

English translation "Those of the Mountain."

Let's enjoy some Italian names, which I love even more than Georgian ones:

Directed by
Aldo Vergano       
 
Writing credits
Alessandro Blasetti        screenplay &
Corrado Pavolini        screenplay &
Alberto Spaini        screenplay &
Aldo Vergano        screenplay &
Sergio Pugliese        dialogue

Gino Betrone        story (uncredited)
Raffaele Luciani        screenplay (uncredited)

Original Music by
Annibale Bizzelli       
 
Cinematography by
Arturo Climati       
Mario Craveri       
 
Film Editing by
Fernando Cerchio       
 
Production Design by
Vittorio Valentini       
 
Set Decoration by
Tullio Maciocchi       
 
Production Management
Piero Caserini    ....   production supervisor
Mario Costantini    ....   unit manager
Attilio Fattori    ....   production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vittorio Cottafavi    ....   assistant director
Nino Fatiganti    ....   assistant director
 
Sound Department
Giacomo Pitzorno    ....   sound (as Giacomo Pizzorno)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Amleto Dessie    ....   camera operator (uncredited)
Ubaldo Marelli    ....   camera operator (uncredited)
 
Music Department
Franco Benedetti    ....   conductor: alpine choir
Nino Sanzogno    ....   conductor
 
Other crew
Alessandro Blasetti    ....   supervising director
Andrea Brazzola    ....   technical advisor (as Cap. Andrea Brazzola)
Vincenzo Genesi    ....   laboratories owner (as V. Genesi)
 
Thanks
Gino Betrone    ....   in memory of (as Cino Betrone)
 

[dot-matrix]

Riders of the Rio Grande was the last in Republic's Three Mesquiteers series

[oilgun]

From http://userpages.umbc.edu/~landon/Film%20Summaries/Summary_Shadow%20of%20a%20Doubt.htm
Shadow of a Doubt was Alfred Hitchcock's favorite among his own films and was based on the case of the real-life "Merry Widow Murderer," Earle Leonard Nelson, a mass strangler of the 1920s. Hitchcock made this chiller all the more frightening by having his crafty homicidal maniac intrude into the tranquility of a warm, middle-class family living in a small town, revealing the dark underside of the American heartland. His characters are deeply developed, and he drew from Joseph Cotten one of the actor's most remarkable and fascinating performances.

[MaineWriter]

==comment==

from IMDb: Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations. They were caught, tried, and several were executed.

[Fran]

[memento]

Another film by The Archers.
From IMDB:
After a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater 'Ralph Richardson' is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly Navy) and has become a hero, rescuing a pilot from his burning plane. When Fred goes to Buckingham Palace it's Ralph's turn to ask for an autograph.
             

Ralph Richardson	...	Himself / Narrator (as Lt. Cmdr Ralph Richardson RNVR)
Pat McGrath	...	Fred Davey
Anna Neagle
Laurence Olivier	...	Himself - impersonating a fish outside restaurant window
Michael Powel	...	Photographer outside Buckingham Palace
Herbert Wilcox
Tommy Woodrooffe	...	Narrator of documentary seen on aircraft carrier