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The greatest generation won World War II. The movie, The Longest Day, based on the book, by Cornelius Ryan, gives an account of their bravery on D-Day, June 6, 1944.The film not only gives the allied perspective of the invasion, but also the German one. It shows in detail, the planning, the execution, and ultimate […]

The Oxbow incident is a movie about frontier justice. It shows how people can lose all sense of reason, when they become a mob. It stars Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn and Henry Davenport. It was directed by William Wellman. Gil Carter, played by Henry Fonda, comes into town with his friend, Art Croft,

Niagara stars Marilyn Monroe as Rose Loomis. It also stars Joseph Cotton as George Loomis and Jean Peters as Polly Cutler. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It has good acting and beautiful shots of Niagara Falls. The movie is about a disturbed and jealous man, George Loomis and his wife Rose, vacationing in Niagara

The beginning of The Magnificent Seven, sets the tone for the rest of the movie. A funeral director refuses to bury an Indian, because the townspeople are against it. Chris Larabee Adams, played by Yul Brynner, steps in. He says he’ll take the Indian up to be buried. He takes the hearse to the cemetery,

High Sierra is the movie that gave HumphreyBogart his first starring role. It was his last one as a bad guy, until he played Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Bogart plays Roy Earle, a convict paroled from prison, by his boss, so he can help some criminals, rob a resort

Red Dust is an ordinary melodrama that stars Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Mary Astor. It was directed by Victor Fleming. It’s notable because Clark Gable playing Dennis Carson, launched a career playing masculine roles, and was on his way to becoming The King of Hollywood. The story is about Dennis Carson, who owns a

The western has been around since Hollywood has been making movies. There have been a fair amount of western stars, Clint Eastwood, Randolph Scott and Roy Rogers to name a few. The biggest and the best though was John Wayne. He proves this with his larger than life performance as Rooster Cogburn. This is the

Avengers: End Game is the sequel to Infinity War. It stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr. Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Remmer and Scarlett Johansson. It’s directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. The directors have done a credible job of bringing the MCU together, in what is said to be the final film in

What do you get when a troubled teenage gets super powers. You get Shazam, a comic book movie directed by David F. Sandberg, that’s one of the best in the DC film cannon. This film succeeds mainly because of the lighter tone. Billy Batson, played well by Asher Angel, is the street smart teenage boy,