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So says Dick Heldar (Ronald Colman), the painter in The Light That Failed.The movie is in the grand old Hollywood style, starring Ronald Colman and a bravura supporting cast that includes Ida Lupino in her first important role, dependable character actor Dudley Digges (who also co-starred with Colman in Condemned.),and
Worse, we picked this up in a discount bin for $4.99 (Canadian dollars at that!) What a grand and pleasant surprise.
In the grand tradition of Disney, inferior sequels are made, and occasionally TV series featuring the adventures of minor characters from their biggest hits.
It's film-noir at its best and although the performances are very good its grand character actress Thelma Ritter who steals the movie.
YOKAI DAISENSO takes things even further in the direction of family-friendliness, diluting the darkness and cynicism to create a grand fantasy fairy tale.
Even from the action, the grand state of it feels like something out of a comic strip and how can't you love the flat-out, bloodthirsty machine gun activity towards the finale.
The fellowship and eventual closeness he enjoys with the natives proves to be a grand learning experience for both him and his new friends.
Babe Ruth was as wooden as one of his bats, but Pigtails hit a grand slam!
Special effects are ridiculous,overlong ,and the sect chants in the grand tradition of "Rosemary's baby" .Satan inspired a lot of movies,but this one seems the worst of them all.Avoid at any price.
Don't you want to be able to share this with your kids and your grand kids?
My childhood days of THE DUKES OF HAZZARD are long gone, which means it's time to dig up what was once grand: car chase movies.
Then please, please spend more then a mere 25 grand, I can't stress this enough, spend more then 25 grand.
David Niven is grand also.
The movie is really a dream of General Nobile, a survivor and commanding officer of the Italia, a dirigible that met with disaster in a grand Artic exploration during the Mussolini era.
I am still reeling from the dizzying marvel of the grand storytelling of this movie.
And Zeffirelli here is still at the stage designing grand opera productions around the world, while still in his creative prime as a film maker.
Based on a thoroughly excellent novel of the same name by Stella Gibbons, this movie is grand.
Mr. Mybug (Stephen Fry) does a grand job of 'that creep everyone's met at least once', and cousin Amos (Ian McKellan) is the best English spitfire I've seen on screen.
His name alone led many to believe The Climax would be a grand, shivering horror fest, especially as it would be Karloff's first color film.
My grand uncle was our local Country Doctor.
Invitation To The Wedding is the last film of Sir Ralph Richardson who plays a somewhat dotty old bishop who accidentally marries his grand niece to a visiting American who was just standing in for the groom at a wedding rehearsal.
When the werewolves finally do make their grand entrance, it is disappointing.
It is imaginative and has a grand scope, cool creatures and intricate, interesting designs, if not all of the concepts hold up.
Rather, we always feel that we are watching one grand picture made up of many parts.
The spontaneous actions,style & quips of this zany grand insanity of unusual lifestyles & eclectic characters being thrust into an quite unusual situation,under the intense pressure of a bunch of grandiose yet charismatic lunatics,kept me constantly yearning for more of that unique chemistry,prolific dialog & unforeseen situations that earmarked this film as an all time favorite of mine!
long beach is portrayed as a pathetic, once grand, now completely burned out ruin of a resort, with drugged-out losers and detritus scrambling about the broken down boardwalk.
Lots of grand sounding ideas like "Without love, we all die" and "Don't die alone", I mean really.
Made at the time when video shops were appearing by the dozen in high streets all over the UK "Gregory's Girl" was a definite "must hire" for any schoolboy who had ever gazed longingly and hopelessly at some unattainable figure in the playground whilst she totally blanks him and chats unconcernedly to her mates,not knowing she carries his heart in her hands.It is at the same time an evocation of the sweet pain and joy of adolescent love and a grand comedy of young manners.
Although on the surface this might seem like grand entertainment, the director and cast do an amazing job of breathing as little life into this film as possible.
What follows is a grand tale of sexual libertinage and deception with a "happy end" of sorts where virtually no-one is redeemed.
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