The Movies I Watched in October

11.22.63 2016  7/10

 

12 + 1 1969  5/10 

45 Minutes From Hollywood 1926  5/10 

Amrum 2025  7/10

 

The Battle Royal 1916  5/10 

Below Zero 1930  7/10

 

Big Business 1929  8/10

 

Dark Winds. Season 1 2022  7/10

Dark Winds. Season 2 2023  7/10 

 

Detained 1924  5/10

The Egyptian 1954  6/10 

Ercole al centro della Terra 1961  6/10 

Escape From New York 1981  8/10

 

The Flying Deuces 1939  6/10 

Frankenstein 2025  7/10

 

Golf 1922  5/10 

Hard Eight 1996  7/10

 

His Day Out 1918  5/10

His Wooden Wedding 1925  6/10 

Hop to It! 1925  5/10 

House of Guinness 2025  7/10

 

Is Marriage the Bunk? 1925  5/10 

Isn't Life Terrible? 1925  5/10 

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case 1930  6/10 

Love and Duty 1916  5/10 

Mud and Sand 1922  5/10

The Music Box 1932  10/10

 

My Father, the BTK Killer 2025  6/10 

One Battle After Another 2025  7/10

 

Oranges and Lemons 1923  5/10 

Our Wife 1931  6/10 

La petite Lise 1930  7/10

 

The Rent Collector 1921  5/10 

Scram! 1932  7/10

 

The Servant 1963  7/10

 

Shanghai Express 1932  7/10

 

The Show 1922  5/10 

Something in Her Eye 1915  5/10 

Starvation Blues 1925  5/10 

Strange Days 1995  7/10

 

Twins 1925  5/10

The Wizard of Oz 1925  5/10 

The Woman in Cabin 10 2025  5/10 

Marlene Dietrich

 

ph: George Horton

Marlene Dietrich

 

Marlene Dietrich and photographer Don English on set of Josef von Sternberg’s SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1931)

Marlene Dietrich

 

Marlene Dietrich

 

The Garden of Allah (1936)

 

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk. 

Star-cast melodrama in an Oriental setting is slow-going, and the romance is quite absurd, but it's all photographed in glorious color and beautiful settings.

Halliwell**: "Arty old-fashioned romantic star vehicle; great to look at, and marking a genuine advance in colour photography, but dramatically a bit of a drag."

Maltin**: "Flagrantly silly romance...full of ripe dialogue, beauty shots of Marlene...and some wonderful Technicolor scenery...It just isn't very good." 

 

Marlene Dietrich

 

Marlene Dietrich

ph: A.L. “Whitey” Schafer

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

From my library: Marlene Dietrich

A lush coffee table book on Marlene Dietrich.

Marlene Dietrich

Witness For the Prosecution (1957)

A master barrister in ill health takes on a man as client who is accused of having murdered an elderly lady.

Congenial adaptation of an Agatha Christie play full of humor, suspense and some surprise twists and topped by some stellar lead performances.

Halliwell ***: "Thoroughly likable though relentlessly over-expanded movie version of a clever stage thriller. Some miscasting and artificiality is condoned by smart dialogue and handling, one celebrated performance, and a handful of surprises."

Maltin ****: "Fantastically effective London courtroom suspenser from Agatha Christie play."