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Movie Matinee — Baby Face (1933)
Today, thanks to the Internet Archive, I am offering up Baby Face from 1933 featuring the incomparable Barbara Stanwyck in a torrid, pre-code melodrama that IMDB describes as: A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the … Continue reading
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Posted in Movie Matinee
Tagged 1933, Barbara Stanwyck, crime, film, Hayes Code, Hollywood, John Wayne, movie, Pre-Code
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Long before the overstuffed, CGI abominations such as The Day After Tomorrow and Man of Steel which I refer to as disaster porn and four decades before the disaster cycle of films of the ’70s such as The Towering Inferno … Continue reading
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Posted in Weird World of the Roku, What's on TV?
Tagged 1933, disaster, Hollywood, Internet Archive, Matinee, movie, Peggy Shannon, Pre-Code, Pub-D-Hub, special effects, Sydney Blackmer
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