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Showing posts with label Erle C. Kenton. Show all posts
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Friday, December 2, 2011

You're telling me 1934 - A kindhearted Fields in a surprisingly sweet fairy tale


IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026017/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
IMDB rating: 7,7


Director: Erle C. Kenton
Main Cast: W. C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames



"One of W.C. Fields' best features, You're Telling Me (a remake of his silent comedy So's Your Old Man) is a comic gem from one of the screen's finest comic performers. It's to be expected that a Fields flick will be funny - or at the very least that Fields himself will be funny. What's surprising and rewarding about Telling is that it provides the cynical master with one of his most likeable roles. Don't worry - he's still an oily curmudgeon who's never met a person about whom he can't find something to insult. But there's a slightly softer side to Fields here, both in his dealings with and feelings for his daughter and in the manner in which he 'rescues' the Princess from what he misinterprets as a suicidal impulse. This latter scene is especially rewarding; it's still amusing, but there's a vulnerability and tenderness underneath Fields that is not often given this much rein. Like many Fields vehicles, this one is more a series of gags and routines tied around a more or less loose plot; but the vignettes are choice, including a version of his celebrated golf routine, as well as an ostrich sequence that is first class. Fields alone is more than enough reason to watch Telling, but there's also fine support from Adrienne Ames, Kathleen Howard, and Louise Carter, among others, that more than makes up from the rather perfunctory performances of Joan Marsh and Larry 'Buster' Crabbe. Thought lost for many years, You're Telling Me's rediscovery in the 1970s gave quite a boost to Fields aficionados hungry for something 'new'." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/youre-telling-me-v118033


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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Island of lost souls 1932 - A taboo-flaunting, blood-curdling spectacular


IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024188/?ref_=nv_sr_1
IMDB rating: 7,6


Director: Erle C. Kenton
Main Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke



"This first film version of H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau stars Charles Laughton as Dr.Moreau, a dedicated but sadly misguided scientist who rules the roost on a remote island. The Island of Lost Souls is that rarity, a horror film from the 1930s that still seems scary. While it may seem a bit creaky by contemporary standards, the film has retained its raw power to unnerve, thanks largely to Charles Laughton, who brings a vivid, sweaty amorality to his performance that's truly disturbing; lots of mad scientists in the movies have played God, but few made it seem more morally repugnant than Laughton. Make-up man Wally Westmore's creations genuinely resemble a grotesque middle ground between humans and animals; if make-up technique has improved considerably since this film was made, the crudity of the effects actually works in this context, giving Moreau's creations a rough, unpolished quality that suits the story perfectly. And while the film is extremely modest in its onscreen violence, the offscreen mutilations are quite shocking in context; the hideously pained overheard screams of Moreau's 'manimals' (and later Moreau himself) are as chillingly effective as a hundred Tom Savini-designed limb-loppings. In its day, The Island of Lost Souls was considered a film that went too far (it was banned in England until the late 1960s), and its rough audacity gives it a power that hasn't dulled all these years later; it's inarguably superior to its latter-day remakes, both titled The Island of Dr. Moreau, after the H.G. Wells novel on which the films were based." - http://www.allmovie.com/movie/island-of-lost-souls-v25463

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(DVDrip, 613 MB):

http://www.filefactory.com/file/3jfik4895vz9

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(480p BRrip, 347 MB, Password: TinyBearDs):

http://uploaded.net/file/4gbbnfpd/Islnd.Of.Lst.Sls.1932.CC.BRRip.480p.TBD.part1.rar 
http://uploaded.net/file/d2rtp7do/Islnd.Of.Lst.Sls.1932.CC.BRRip.480p.TBD.part2.rar