Last 50 Ratings of 2017
My last 50 review ratings of 2017 as of 31 Dec 2017. Beginning some 3056 films, videos later after my First 50 review ratings list from 1999. My review ratings are from actual viewings. They are not from 'click on a title and then hit rating' in order to artificially inflate the number of films reviewed.
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- DirectorJean RenoirStarsCharles LaughtonMaureen O'HaraGeorge SandersA mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
- DirectorRay EnrightBusby BerkeleyStarsJoan BlondellDick PowellRuby KeelerA multimillionaire decides to boycott "filthy" forms of entertainment such as Broadway shows.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsEdward G. RobinsonGeorge SandersFrancis LedererFBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsMargaret SullavanJames StewartRobert YoungThe Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykIrving ReisStarsTim HoltBonita GranvilleKent SmithThis lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsGregory PeckTamara ToumanovaAlan ReedA heroic guerrilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJohn GarfieldPatricia NealPhyllis ThaxterAn otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
- DirectorRoy MackStarsFreddie Rich and His OrchestraVera VanEton BoysFreddie Rich and His Orchestra perform popular songs and accompany guest performers.
- DirectorDave O'BrienStarsPete SmithMargaret BertDon BrodieThis Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at women battling for bargains in a department store.
- DirectorAaron Douglas JohnstonSam de JongStarsRyan GourleyRyan OvertonHeidi M. SallowsDistraught by her gay friend's death, a young Dutch woman travels to her dead friend's small American town to make a documentary about homosexuality in Bumblefuck USA.
- DirectorDave O'BrienStarsPete SmithDave O'BrienSally PayneIn this Pete Smith Specialty, we see the humorous (and disastrous) results when people save their money under a mattress, in a coffee can or an old shoe, and other unsafe places. Viewers are urged to put their money in U.S. Savings Bonds, a much safer investment.
- StarsArnold MorrisIn this theatrical short, a man dressed as a chef demonstrates a 12-piece kitchen cutlery set that is to be given to each lady patron of the theater, one piece each week. The set includes several innovative slicers and kitchen gadgets.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsJimmy Dorsey and His OrchestraBob EberlyEvelyn OaksIn a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list of songs, check the soundtrack listing.
- Westinghouse shows women how to improve their lives by selecting the ideal design for their refrigerators.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsConstance BennettLowell ShermanNeil HamiltonThe career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsEdward G. RobinsonJames CagneyEvalyn KnappA Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsEdward G. RobinsonMary AstorHelen VinsonWhen Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsVirginia WeidlerEdward ArnoldJohn CarrollJoan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsSuzy KendallTina AumontLuc MerendaA string of appalling lust murders shocks the University of Perugia as a sadistic serial killer strangles to death beautiful college girls with a red and black scarf.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsJohn AshleyPat WoodellJan MerlinA kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
- DirectorGeorge YarbroughStarsRuss BlairAnita BryantJohnny DesmondShort industrial film telling the story of Tupperware food containers, including refining petroleum into plastic raw materials; product design, manufacturing, quality control and packaging; and sales by independent dealers at home parties.
- DirectorNicholas CarpenterHarry GrigsbyStarsHolly MadisonChristina RosenbergNicole ZeoliFor their final task as sorority pledges, three girls must tell the scariest story they know. Once they finish, the votes are in. But has someone taken murder to heart?
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLana TurnerJohn GarfieldCecil KellawayA married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsPierre ArditiRita ForzanoGiuseppe AddobbatiBlaise Pascal struggles to understand the natural world around him, in addition to an inner quest for religious faith.
- DirectorAlan KramerStarsErika JordanLily LaBeauBobbie MillerA beautiful reporter gets caught up in the deadly and erotic world of an online 'murder club' in this red-hot thriller.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsRandolph ScottJohn CarrollKaren SteeleBart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death years earlier.
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsJack NicholsonRandy QuaidOtis YoungTwo Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
- DirectorRobert GreenwaldStarsOlivia Newton-JohnGene KellyMichael BeckA struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
- DirectorNeal SlavinStarsWilliam H. MacyLaura DernDavid PaymerIn the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRay MillandGrace KellyRobert CummingsA former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
- DirectorJack HivelyStarsGeorge SandersWendy BarrieJonathan HaleInspector Fernack is framed by a cartel of five gangsters and Simon does his best to prove it before all the conspirators are murdered by a mysterious killer.
- StarsMartin RansohoffJames GarnerArthur HillerBehind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily (1964).
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTippi HedrenSean ConneryMartin GabelMark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartDoris DayBrenda de BanzieAn American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
- DirectorEdwin LawrenceStarsCharles 'Chic' SaleGranville BatesBilly DooleyA small-town newspaper editor has to decide which is more important to his readers - seemingly mundane local events, or a sensational crime story with a passing local connection.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsGinger RogersLana TurnerWalter PidgeonThe misadventures of a group of diverse guests at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesF. Murray AbrahamMathieu AmalricA writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsBing CrosbyFrances FarmerBob BurnsCowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the ranch where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsGary CooperWalter HustonMary BrianA good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
- DirectorChaz BuchananStarsJayde KelleyHeather McCormickCharles BuchananThe Tale of the Voodoo Prostitute centers on a rough and rugged venomous gangster. He has the misfortune of meeting the wrong woman that has a few secrets concerning her background and abilities.
- DirectorMichael LangeStarsDominique SwainBen PullenPeggy LiptonAn overworked, underpaid magazine intern goes from the mail-room to the boardroom, while searching for a spy within the company.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMargaret SullavanJames StewartFrank MorganTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
- DirectorBen YoungerStarsGiovanni RibisiVin DieselNia LongA college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm which puts him on the fast track to success. But the job might not be as legitimate as it first appeared to be.
- DirectorWilliam MarshallStarsDean FredericksColeen GrayAnthony DexterAfter an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
- DirectorTom GraeffStarsDavid LoveDawn BenderBryan GrantA young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.
- 1988–19991h 34mTV-PG8.2 (654)TV EpisodeDirectorKevin MurphyStarsTrace BeaulieuJoel HodgsonJim MallonJoel and the Bots discover the difference between real and "reel" life, how to dispose of snacks in space, a real 'boss' visitor, and how JFK can wreck a fashion show in this episode featuring the classic "Teenagers From Outer Space."
- StarsJames BrillOld-timer Billy Slater organizes a rodeo for kids.
- 1988–19991h 32mTV-PG7.8 (620)TV EpisodeDirectorJim MallonStarsTrace BeaulieuJoel HodgsonJim MallonA small town cowpoke straightens out some rowdy kids by making them put on a rodeo show in Junior Rodeo Daredevils (1949). A group of drunken scientists battle with dogs dressed as rabid shrews in The Killer Shrews (1959). Joel and the Bots concoct a Killer Shrew drink and the Mads are thwarted in their latest attempt to destroy the world.