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jean-arthur · 9 months

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Jean Arthur in Stairs of Sand, 1929.

#jean arthur #stairs of sand #1929 #1920s #old hollywood #bw #**#otto brower

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gatutor · 10 months

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Frances Dee-William Gargan "La dama de la prensa" (Headline shooter) 1933, de Otto Brower.

#Frances Dee #William Gargan #Otto Brower

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doubtspirit · 2 years

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The Spirit Of The West (1932)

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letterboxd-loggd · 1 year

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Behind Green Lights (1946) Otto Brower

May 16th 2023

#behind green lights #1946 #otto brower #william gargan #carole landis #richard crane #don beddoe #mary anderson #charles russell #john ireland #mabel paige #roy roberts #charles arnt #bernard nedell #precinct 33

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citizenscreen · 1 month

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Richard Arlen and Rosita Moreno in THE SANTA FE TRAIL (1930), directed by Otto Brower and Edwin H. Knopf

#richard arlen #rosita moreno #old hollywood #classic movies

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byneddiedingo · 10 months

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Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)

Cast: Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Tilly Losch, Butterfly McQueen. Screenplay: David O. Selznick, Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on a novel by Niven Busch. Cinematography: Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, Harold Rosson. Production design: J. McMillan Johnson. Film editing: Hal C. Kern. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.

This is a bad movie, but it's one distinguished in the annals of bad movies because it was made by David O. Selznick, who as the poster shouted at moviegoers, was "The Producer Who Gave You 'GONE WITH THE WIND.'" Selznick made it to showcase Jennifer Jones, the actress who won an Oscar as the saintly Bernadette of Lourdes in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943). Selznick, who left his wife for Jones, wanted to demonstrate that she was capable of much more than the sweetly gentle piety of Bernadette, so he cast her as the sultry Pearl Chavez in this adaptation (credited to Selznick himself along with Oliver H.P. Garrett, with some uncredited help by Ben Hecht) of the novel by Niven Busch. Opposite Jones, Selznick cast Gregory Peck as the amoral cowboy Lewt McCanles, who shares a self-destructive passion with Pearl. Both actors are radically miscast. Jones does a lot of eye- and teeth-flashing as Pearl, while Peck's usual good-guy persona undermines his attempts to play rapaciously sexy. The plot is one of those familiar Western tropes: good brother Jesse (Joseph Cotten) against bad 'un Lewt, reflecting the ill-matched personalities of their parents, the tough old cattle baron Jackson McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his gentle (and genteel) wife, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish). Pearl is an orphan, the improbable daughter of an improbable couple, the educated Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) and a sexy Indian woman (Tilly Losch), who angers him by fooling around with another man (Sidney Blackmer). Chavez kills both his wife and her lover and is hanged for it, so Pearl is sent to live with the McCanleses -- Laura Belle is Chavez's second cousin and old sweetheart -- on their Texas ranch. It's all pretentiously packaged by Selznick: not many other movies begin with both a "Prelude" and an "Overture," composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in the best overblown Hollywood style. It has Technicolor as lurid as its story, shot by three major cinematographers, Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, and Harold Rosson. But any attempt to generate real heat between Jones and Peck was quickly stifled by the Production Code, which even forced Selznick to introduce a voiceover at the beginning to explain that the character of the frontier preacher known as "The Sinkiller" (entertainingly played by Walter Huston) was not intended to be a representative clergyman. There are a few good moments, including an impressive tracking shot at the barbecue on the ranch in which various guests offer their opinions of Pearl, the McCanles brothers, and other things. Whether this scene can be credited to director King Vidor, who was certainly capable of it, is an open question, because Vidor found working with the obsessive Selznick so difficult that he quit the film. Selznick directed some scenes, as did Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, and Josef von Sternberg, all uncredited. The resulting melange is not unwatchable, thanks to a few good performances in secondary roles (Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey), and perhaps also to some really terrible ones (Lionel Barrymore at his most florid and Butterfly McQueen repeating her fluttery air-headedness from GWTW).

#Duel in the Sun #King Vidor #Gregory Peck #Jennifer Jones

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spertotonyjicarilla · 1 year

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The Gay Caballero - Otto Brower - 1940...https://western-mood.blogspot.com/search/label/Gay%20Caballero%20%28The%29

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Carole Landis, William Gargan Mary Anderson | Behind Green Lights (1946...

Behind Green Lights is a 1946 US crime film directed by Otto Brower. The movie stars Carole Landis, William Gargan, and Mary Anderson. A bullet-ridden corpse is found in a car in front of the police station. Cast Carole Landis as Janet Bradley William Gargan as Lt. Sam Carson Don Beddoe as Dr. Yager, Medical Examiner Richard Crane as Johnny Williams, Reporter Mary Anderson as Nora Bard John Ireland as Det. Oppenheimer Charles Russell as Arthur Templeton Roy Roberts as Max Calvert Mabel Paige as Flossie Stanley Prager as Ruzinsky, Milkman Charles Tannen as Ames, Reporter Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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ednajoness · 11 months

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#Edna Jones

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classiccinemadelights · 11 months

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#Behind Green Lights (1946) - Full Classic Noir Film | Uncover the Truth Behind the Mystery

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elcinelateleymickyandonie · 2 years

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