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Film 122, THE AMAZING MR X, 1948, continuing my Lynn Bari watch-a-thon. Spooky apparitions! Sinister psychics! Lynn Bari! Deception! Scurrilous rogues! French Windows being blown open in the middle of the night! This is a delectably twisted tale, with very good acting, casting, and direction. Quality 7/10 Entertainment 7/10.

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Film 100. In an effort to combine my fondness for classic Doctor Who, with my love of old movies, I'm attempting to watch every Who-related movie I can find. Hence: MELVIN, SON OF ALVIN (Katy Manning, 3rd Dr companion). Oh goody, another sex comedy featuring Katy Manning... The previous 2 were duds, but 3rd time's the charm! This low-brow Australian offering is often amateurish, sometimes vulgar, and generally purile, *but*,  crucially, it's bloody funny. At least once every 10 minutes something very funny happens - this is a comedy first and foremost, and very few *sex comedies* can claim that. (There are, unfortunately, a few jokes poking fun at gay people, but, considering the time and place, they're remarkably tame, even sweet.) This is not a good film, I realise that, but I liked it a lot. Quality 5/10 Entertainment 8/10.

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25 in my quest to watch 365 movies in 2020: Cracked Nuts! 1941. Quality 3/10 Entertainment 5/10. Tell me there's a movie that stars Mantan Moreland and Una Merkel, and until very recently I'd  have answered, without hesitating: 'Show me that movie! Any film featuring those two is bound to be a blast!' Moreland and Merkel are great,  as always; Howard Shemp, however, obsessively chasing after blonde women, whilst pretending to be a robot, is one of the least entertaining things I've ever witnessed. This film is not one jot better than it had to be, and that's a damming criticism in deed.

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19 in my quest to watch 365 movies in 2020: Way Down East, 1935, starring Rochelle Hudson (again) and Henry Fonda. A film that's too sweet and optimistic for its brilliance to be easily noticed.  Quality 10/10 Entertainment 9/10. I'm not 100% certain, but this film may actually be perfect. The acting, writing, and direction are all as good as could be; and what might have been an intellectually unsatisfying story is given more than enough depth by the twin threads of clever, subtle symbolism which wind throughout (the frozen river, and the ever present alcohol ); the Great DWG, upon whose earlier film this is based, deserves much of the credit, of course. I declare Way Down East to be, in my opinion, a MASTERPIECE!

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14 in my quest to watch 365 movies in 2020: Nell Gwynn, 1926 - aka Dorothy Gish Falls Out Of Her Dress For A  Hour And Twenty Minutes; starring Dorothy Gish,  whom I adore. Quality 7/10 Entertainment 9/10. Funnier, and less vapid, than most films from Pickford, Normand, or Gisn (Lillian), though not as technically accomplished as Pickford at her best. For once, ms Gish's cavalcade of silly 'business' is perfectly appropriate.  There's only one emotionally engaging moment, but in that moment, Dorothy moves us more with one careless sag of her shoulders than her sister ever accomplished with any of her histrionic displays.

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15 in my quest to watch 365 movies in 2020: Dante's Inferno, 1935, starring Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, directed by Harry Lachman (who, surprisingly, went on to direct 4 Charlie Chan films). Quality 7/10 Entertainment 5/10. This film is weighed down by many infernal elements,  which muddy the narrative to such a degree that, what should have been a very good drama is degraded into a silly melodramatic spectacle. And thats a shame, because the writing is ambitious and uncompromising,  and the acting is superb;  especial from Tracy, whose ability to be despicable and nice simultaneously is the only thing that makes this movie an enjoyable watch. 

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Number 13 in my quest to watch 356 movies in 2020: Music in The Air, 1934, starring silent movie stalwart Gloria Swanson - and which supposedly features an uncredited appearance by Lynn Bari. Quality 7/10 Entertainment 7/10. The movie recreates scenes from the original stage musical, and, in those moments, it's dizzyingly zippy, and laugh-out-loud funny - the cleverest musical comedy I've ever seen. Where the film strays from the original, however, it loses all its sparkle. 

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Film #12 in my quest to watch 365 movies in 2020: Stand Up And Cheer, 1934! Quality 3/10 Entertainment 2/10. Lewd, lazy, clumsy, and stupid; perhaps enjoyable only for its bizarre awfulness. The film makers explicitly blame the Great Depression on the nation's poor, for not putting sufficient effort into enjoying their crushing poverty. Possibly fans of Shirley Temple and Nigel Bruce should consider watching this train wreck (and, if you're not a fan of Nigel Bruce, I can only assume you're unacquainted with Nigel Bruce). Supposedly,  Lynn Bari is in this film somewhere, but I couldn't spot her.

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Continuing my quest to watch 365 movies in 2020: movie #11: Bottoms Up, 1934, starring Spencer Tracy. Quality 6 Entertainment 7 - the film would have scored higher if not for the blandness of the music. Imagine a script that was developed originally for the Marx Brothers, before being toned down and given to Spencer Tracy, with Tracy in the Groucho role. Tracy and Thelma Todd are the highlights. Overall, it's an enjoyable romp - many times more witty and carefully crafted than anything likely to come out of Hollywood nowadays. Supposedly Lynn Bari is in here somewhere, in one of her very many uncredited roles, but I didn't spot her. 

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My 2020 resolution: watch 365 movies in 365 days! FIlm 7: Son Of Fury, 1942. Starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney. Quality 4/10 Entertainment 6/10. The first half hour of this film is comically overwrought and silly - almost unbearably so; from there on in, however, everything improves drastically, and, taken as a whole, Son Of Fury is an enjoyable, though not memorable, romance. Ms Tierney's performance provides further evidence that, if one is wealthy and attractive, one can walk into any job that takes ones fancy.

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