Witness one Robert Lippert, an American independent producer who flourished in multiple eras of Hollywood. We discuss his adaptation to changes in the movie biz in conjunction with a double bill DVD of two typical Lippert shows from the very early fifties, one produced in Hollywood and another in England. Robert Lippert is the proof that ‘Life Finds a Way’ in the movies as well, a sentiment reinterpreted as ‘staying in the game.’
I’ll Get You + Fingerprints Don’t Lie
Forgotten Noir Volume 6
DVD
Vci / Kit Parker
1951, 1952 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / Street Date April 24 2007, 2020
Starring: George Raft, Sally Gray, Clifford Evans; Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton.
I’ve wanted to review the two ‘programmers’ in this double-bill disc for some time, not realizing that I was really more interested in a producer associated with them. The name Robert L. Lippert pops up continually in the history of some of my favorite genre pictures.
I’ll Get You + Fingerprints Don’t Lie
Forgotten Noir Volume 6
DVD
Vci / Kit Parker
1951, 1952 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / Street Date April 24 2007, 2020
Starring: George Raft, Sally Gray, Clifford Evans; Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton.
I’ve wanted to review the two ‘programmers’ in this double-bill disc for some time, not realizing that I was really more interested in a producer associated with them. The name Robert L. Lippert pops up continually in the history of some of my favorite genre pictures.
- 9/15/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Ron Hogan Jul 12, 2016
Jesse is discovering that the power of The Voice is a dubious one in this quieter but no less impressive episode of Preacher...
This review contains spoilers.
1.7 He Gone
Jesse Custer has had a sudden realisation as to the full abilities he has within himself. Not as a criminal or a person or a fighter, but as the carrier of Genesis, Aka The Voice. He can use it for good, as when he ordered Mrs. Lorch to forgive Eugene, and he can use it for bad like, you know, sending Eugene to Hell for annoying him with some righteous indignation regarding Jesse's abuse of his power. It's interesting to watch him come to terms with what he's done, as he does throughout this episode.
Of the characters on Preacher, the one that kind of draws the least attention is Jesse Custer himself. He's the lead, and yet...
Jesse is discovering that the power of The Voice is a dubious one in this quieter but no less impressive episode of Preacher...
This review contains spoilers.
1.7 He Gone
Jesse Custer has had a sudden realisation as to the full abilities he has within himself. Not as a criminal or a person or a fighter, but as the carrier of Genesis, Aka The Voice. He can use it for good, as when he ordered Mrs. Lorch to forgive Eugene, and he can use it for bad like, you know, sending Eugene to Hell for annoying him with some righteous indignation regarding Jesse's abuse of his power. It's interesting to watch him come to terms with what he's done, as he does throughout this episode.
Of the characters on Preacher, the one that kind of draws the least attention is Jesse Custer himself. He's the lead, and yet...
- 7/12/2016
- Den of Geek
Comedy Central’s Drunk History is so hilarious if you’re in the right mood, and probably even if you aren’t. So, what’d we learn from tonight’s season finale, “Wild West,” guest-starring Andrew Daly, Rob Huebel, Jake Johnson, Chris Parnell, and Horatio Sanz? (Nsfw language ahead.)
Key ‘Drunk History’ Lessons for the week of August 27, 2013
Teddy Roosevelt has a big old d*ck. Also, “Guys: Spain sucks.”
An 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt once said: “If I’m gonna be anything? The thing that I’m gonna be? Is a badass.”
If you feel like you can’t remember history accurately enough,...
Key ‘Drunk History’ Lessons for the week of August 27, 2013
Teddy Roosevelt has a big old d*ck. Also, “Guys: Spain sucks.”
An 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt once said: “If I’m gonna be anything? The thing that I’m gonna be? Is a badass.”
If you feel like you can’t remember history accurately enough,...
- 8/28/2013
- by Annie Barrett
- EW.com - PopWatch
Bette Davis movies: TCM schedule on August 14 (photo: Bette Davis in ‘Dangerous,’ with Franchot Tone) See previous post: “Bette Davis Eyes: They’re Watching You Tonight.” 3:00 Am Parachute Jumper (1933). Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Harold Huber, Leo Carrillo, Thomas E. Jackson, Lyle Talbot, Leon Ames, Stanley Blystone, Reginald Barlow, George Chandler, Walter Brennan, Pat O’Malley, Paul Panzer, Nat Pendleton, Dewey Robinson, Tom Wilson, Sheila Terry. Bw-72 mins. 4:30 Am The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935). Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Phillip Reed, Katharine Alexander, Helen Jerome Eddy, Bill Elliott, Edward McWade, André Cheron, Wedgwood Nowell, John Quillan, Mary Treen. Bw-69 mins. 6:00 Am Dangerous (1935). Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Dick Foran, Walter Walker, Richard Carle, George Irving, Pierre Watkin, Douglas Wood,...
- 8/15/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Eleanor Parker Now on TCM Palms Springs area resident Eleanor Parker, who turns 91 next June 26, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of June. One of the best actresses of Hollywood’s studio era, Parker isn’t nearly as well-remembered today as she should be despite three Best Actress Academy Award nominations (Caged, 1950; Detective Story, 1951; Interrupted Melody, 1955), a number of box-office and/or critical hits, and a key role in one of the biggest blockbusters of all time (The Sound of Music). Hopefully, the 34 Eleanor Parker movies TCM will be showing each Monday this month — beginning tonight — will help to introduce the actress to a broader 21st-century audience. Eleanor Parker movies "When I am spotted somewhere it means that my characterizations haven’t covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around," Parker once said. In fact, the title of Doug McClelland’s 1989 Eleanor Parker bio,...
- 6/4/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A bold attempt to retell the story of the battle of the Alamo is let down by the unrelieved gloom and the ponderous pace
The Alamo (2004)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: B+
In 1836, Mexican forces took the Alamo mission, near what is now San Antonio, Texas, from a small band of Texian defenders. (Texians were American settlers in Texas. They did not start to be called Texans until after the state's declaration of independence later that year.)
People
Washed-up alcoholic Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) is selling investment in Texas. Washed-up politician David "Davy" Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), rejected by the electors of Tennessee, is interested. "I told them: 'You can go to hell. I'm going to Texas'," he says defiantly. They're joined by washed-up knife-fighter and committed slave-owner Jim Bowie (Jason Patric), who is ailing with tuberculosis, and washed-up lawyer William Travis (Patrick Wilson), who cruelly abandons his family.
The Alamo (2004)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: B+
In 1836, Mexican forces took the Alamo mission, near what is now San Antonio, Texas, from a small band of Texian defenders. (Texians were American settlers in Texas. They did not start to be called Texans until after the state's declaration of independence later that year.)
People
Washed-up alcoholic Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) is selling investment in Texas. Washed-up politician David "Davy" Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), rejected by the electors of Tennessee, is interested. "I told them: 'You can go to hell. I'm going to Texas'," he says defiantly. They're joined by washed-up knife-fighter and committed slave-owner Jim Bowie (Jason Patric), who is ailing with tuberculosis, and washed-up lawyer William Travis (Patrick Wilson), who cruelly abandons his family.
- 11/8/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Randy remembers.
When John Wayne speaks out about the independence of Texas in “The Alamo” – saying that the word ‘republic’ sounds good to him – maybe he thought they said ‘republican.’ Never mind the politics, “The Alamo” is a movie that makes even my Texas blood – twenty-plus years removed – run a little hotter.
Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis and Sam Houston are names very familiar to anyone who grew up in The Lone Star State. John Wayne, though, is just as familiar and a much better badass.
The Duke may have been born with the name Marion – in Iowa, no less – but here he’s all two-fisted Texas swagger ready to take on that Mexican army all by himself. Well, actually, he’s ready to cut and run until the impassioned speech from Laurence Harvey persuades everyone to stay for the massacre scene.
The story ends badly – for Texans, anyway...
When John Wayne speaks out about the independence of Texas in “The Alamo” – saying that the word ‘republic’ sounds good to him – maybe he thought they said ‘republican.’ Never mind the politics, “The Alamo” is a movie that makes even my Texas blood – twenty-plus years removed – run a little hotter.
Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis and Sam Houston are names very familiar to anyone who grew up in The Lone Star State. John Wayne, though, is just as familiar and a much better badass.
The Duke may have been born with the name Marion – in Iowa, no less – but here he’s all two-fisted Texas swagger ready to take on that Mexican army all by himself. Well, actually, he’s ready to cut and run until the impassioned speech from Laurence Harvey persuades everyone to stay for the massacre scene.
The story ends badly – for Texans, anyway...
- 9/29/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Chicago – In Chicago’s continuing trend of borrowing from Broadway high-accolade actors rather than drawing upon the profusion of genius in our own backyard, at least now-Broadway star and New York local Gregg Edelman is a Chicago native. And the TV voice of the peanut M&M.
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
Following Edelman’s previous 15 Broadway shows and four Tony Award nominations, now he’s confidently embodying the diabolical vigilante Sweeney Todd with precision, power and patience. While the 52-year-old Edelman was born in Chicago and attended Northwestern University, prior to this performance his only Chicago credit is just out of college from three decades ago: 1980’s “Evita”.
Gregg Edelman (front left) and Liz McCartney (front right) in Drury Lane Theatre’s “Sweeney Todd”.
Photo credit: Brett Beiner
Running from Aug. 11, 2011 through Oct. 9, 2011, the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbroak Terrace, Ill. spotlights the beloved musical thriller with Edelman as well as New...
Play Rating: 4.0/5.0
Following Edelman’s previous 15 Broadway shows and four Tony Award nominations, now he’s confidently embodying the diabolical vigilante Sweeney Todd with precision, power and patience. While the 52-year-old Edelman was born in Chicago and attended Northwestern University, prior to this performance his only Chicago credit is just out of college from three decades ago: 1980’s “Evita”.
Gregg Edelman (front left) and Liz McCartney (front right) in Drury Lane Theatre’s “Sweeney Todd”.
Photo credit: Brett Beiner
Running from Aug. 11, 2011 through Oct. 9, 2011, the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbroak Terrace, Ill. spotlights the beloved musical thriller with Edelman as well as New...
- 9/2/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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