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“Courtroom Hijinks”
By Raymond Benson
The 1948 courtroom drama, I, Jane Doe, directed by John H. Auer and starring the inimitable Ruth Hussey as a defense attorney who displays feminist tendencies before that word was in the public vernacular, is a well-acted, twisty-plotted, and entertaining B-movie flick from second-string studio Republic Pictures—except for one thing… the trial and all the aspects associated with it is absolute nonsense.
It’s as if screenwriter Lawrence Kimble made up a courtroom drama based on what he’d seen from other movies of that ilk without ever studying the law as it applies to a trial. In no way would our heroine, Eve Meredith Curtis (Hussey), be able to insist on a retrial of a convicted murderer on the basis that Ms. Doe had refused to reveal her real name or present a defense for herself in the first trial.
“Courtroom Hijinks”
By Raymond Benson
The 1948 courtroom drama, I, Jane Doe, directed by John H. Auer and starring the inimitable Ruth Hussey as a defense attorney who displays feminist tendencies before that word was in the public vernacular, is a well-acted, twisty-plotted, and entertaining B-movie flick from second-string studio Republic Pictures—except for one thing… the trial and all the aspects associated with it is absolute nonsense.
It’s as if screenwriter Lawrence Kimble made up a courtroom drama based on what he’d seen from other movies of that ilk without ever studying the law as it applies to a trial. In no way would our heroine, Eve Meredith Curtis (Hussey), be able to insist on a retrial of a convicted murderer on the basis that Ms. Doe had refused to reveal her real name or present a defense for herself in the first trial.
- 6/27/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
By John M. Whalen
In the opening scene of Republic Pictures “The Man Who Died Twice,” (1950) a car drives along a mountain road and two cops in a patrol car remark that it’s nightclub owner T. J. Brennon (Don Megowan) passing by. Next thing you know the car goes off a cliff and explodes in flames. Then a woman (Vera Ralston) gets out of a cab in front of her apartment building and looks up at the balcony where two men are fighting. She shrieks in horror as one of the men comes plummeting down and lands on the sidewalk at her feet. Splat! She watches as the other man climbs up a fire escape ladder to the roof. But not before a third man appears on the balcony and the guy on the fire escape shoots him. Vera Ralston faints from all the excitement and falls on the...
In the opening scene of Republic Pictures “The Man Who Died Twice,” (1950) a car drives along a mountain road and two cops in a patrol car remark that it’s nightclub owner T. J. Brennon (Don Megowan) passing by. Next thing you know the car goes off a cliff and explodes in flames. Then a woman (Vera Ralston) gets out of a cab in front of her apartment building and looks up at the balcony where two men are fighting. She shrieks in horror as one of the men comes plummeting down and lands on the sidewalk at her feet. Splat! She watches as the other man climbs up a fire escape ladder to the roof. But not before a third man appears on the balcony and the guy on the fire escape shoots him. Vera Ralston faints from all the excitement and falls on the...
- 1/27/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
‘Things Blowing Up Good’ has been surefire entertainment since the beginning of cinema, but this ill-fated Cinerama extravaganza about the biggest explosion in recorded human history limps along despite some pretty darned impressive volcanic effects. It’s quite an entertaining spectacle, with various good performers in three soap opera plots, either overacting or loitering about with nothing to do. And don’t forget the from-left-field musical striptease.
Krakatoa East of Java
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / Street Date September 12, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Rossano Brazzi, John Leyton, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, Victoria Young, Marc Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis, Sumi Haru.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Film Editors: Walter Hannemann, Warren Low, Maurice Rootes
Production Design: Eugèné Lourié
Costumes: Laure Lourié
Special Effects: Eugèné Lourié, Alex Weldon, Francisco Prósper
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Clifford Newton Gould,...
Krakatoa East of Java
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / Street Date September 12, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Rossano Brazzi, John Leyton, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, Victoria Young, Marc Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis, Sumi Haru.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Film Editors: Walter Hannemann, Warren Low, Maurice Rootes
Production Design: Eugèné Lourié
Costumes: Laure Lourié
Special Effects: Eugèné Lourié, Alex Weldon, Francisco Prósper
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Clifford Newton Gould,...
- 9/2/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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