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Part 1. 39 Must See Movies from 1939, the Greatest Year In Film?
Over at TMM HQ we love a good movie, so much so that we decide to create this blog dedicating it to our favourite 39 movies from 1939, a year in which we and most critics agree was arguably the greatest year for film. We haven’t ranked them in any particular order but you’ll see […]
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)
Main Cast: Gene Tierney as Lucy Muir Rex Harrison as Capt Daniel Gregg George Sanders as Miles Fairley Edna Best as Martha Huggins Natalie Wood as a young Anna Muir. Recently widowed Lucy Muir is struggling with her bossy family. She decides to leave London and move to Cornwall with her young daughter Anna . […]
Citizen Kane(1941)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore. Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) utters the word ‘Rosebud’ with his final breath and the film deals with the attempts of friends and acquaintances to unravel the meaning of it via flashbacks of his life. Regarded by many as the best film ever made and highly ranked […]
Separate Tables (1958) Rita Hayworth, David Niven. A Film Review
Separate Tables is set in a hotel in Bournemouth, a local British seaside resort. With a star studded cast such as Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr and filmed in Black and White, you get the feel of what a dreary seaside hotel would be like back in the 50s. […]
Laura (1944), Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews. A Film review
This is a deliciously dark film from the 1940’s, the golden era of Hollywood film noir. What is a film noir movie? Usually it is a crime drama emphasizing sexual motivations or cynicism. Laura has all of this and more. Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is sent to investigate the murder of Laura Hunt (Gene […]
Gilda (1946) Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford. A Film review.
This film is one of the greats of the 20th Century. It’s a terrific romantic drama/film noir with Rita Hayworth in her career-defining role as the beautiful Gilda who turns the head of every male in the movie as well as disrupting the lives of ex flame, small time operator Johnny (Glenn Ford) and his […]