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tvking1 has written 29 reviews.
The King of Kings
Cecil DeMille is probably best known for his biblical epics, like "The Ten Commandments", "Samson And Delilah", etc., even though only a few of his movies were based on biblical characters or events. "The King Of...
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Posted apr 9, 2009 2:08 pm pt

The King of Kings
Cecil DeMille is probably best known for his biblical epics, like "The Ten Commandments", "Samson And Delilah", etc., even though only a few of his movies were based on biblical characters or events. "The King Of...
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Posted apr 9, 2009 2:07 pm pt

Jesus of Nazareth (minseries)
This miniseries actually first aired on NBC in 1977. The life of Christ, from Annunciation to Ascension, is meticulously told in this star-studded TV epic, featuring Robert Powell as a very convincng Jesus, showing the full range of emotion. A...
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Posted apr 7, 2009 12:18 am pt

King of Kings
This was perhaps the first movie to both show the face of Jesus and give Him a speaking role. Jeffrey Hunter makes the Christ come to life in this epic, more or less a remake of the DeMille silent epic from the 1920s. It begins with a historical...
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Posted apr 6, 2009 11:03 pm pt

Midnight Express
Both Billy Hayes, the anti-hero of the story, and screenwriter Oliver Stone have expressed remorse over the extremely negative depiction of Turks in this highly fictionalized version of a true story. In the movie, Billy Hayes is visiting Istanbul...
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Posted apr 5, 2009 12:11 pm pt

Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Darby, a groundskeeper set to be replaced by Michael MacBride (Sean Connery), and King Brian of the leprechauns match wits as Darby tries to get the pot of gold, and King Brian tries to trick him into forfeiting it by wishing a fourth wish, which...
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Posted mar 15, 2009 11:46 am pt

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous
I had never seen the first "Miss Congeniality", so I went to see this sequel with an open mind. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. It starts off with dumb, tired old "J.Edgar Hoover-was-a-transvestite" jokes...
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Posted feb 16, 2009 11:40 pm pt

A generation of moviegoers may remember him as evil King Edward Longshanks in Mel Gibson's Oscar-winning 1995 epic "Braveheart", but he was a small-screen favorite in the 1960s with "Danger Man" (known in the U.S. as "Secret Agent") and later "The...
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Posted jan 22, 2009 11:24 am pt

The Family Man
This is another one of those movies that speaks to me. Like Nicholas Cage in "The Family Man", I often wonder what life would be like if I had said "yes". He was living the high life, then, like George Bailey in "It's A...
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Posted jan 3, 2009 9:24 am pt

For Your Eyes Only
This was one of the best of the Bond films. It was more realistic than most of the others, and the villains weren't so comic-bookish. A far cry from the super-gimmicky "Moonraker" two years earlier, which was probably one reason why they...
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Posted jan 1, 2009 12:12 pm pt

The Third Man
Among the best of the film noir of the 1940s. Orson Welles steals the show, even though he's in it for only a few minutes, and he utters the most famous line, the one about the cuckoo clock. His character, Harry Lime, was the lowest of the low,...
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Posted dec 31, 2008 11:29 am pt

Casablanca
I don't always agree with film critics, who are mostly out of touch with most movie goers, but they're spot on about "Casablanca". Everything went together just right for it to become one of the classics of American cinema. It won a...
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Posted dec 31, 2008 11:20 am pt

It's A Wonderful Life
A clerical error brought this once-forgotten movie out of oblivion and turned it into one of the premier Christmas classics, one which the holidays just doesn't seem to be the same without. The big movie in 1946 was "The Best Years Of Our...
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Posted dec 23, 2008 11:20 pm pt

Fred MacMurray plays Bill Dunnigan, a Hollywood press agent who is fufilling a deceased young actress's last wish to be buried in her hometown, Coaltown, PA. He helped get her short career started, and she got the lead role in a biopic of St. Joan...
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Posted dec 23, 2008 10:51 pm pt

Joan the Woman
An early Cecil B. DeMille film, which helped establish him as a Hollywood powerhouse, a full 40 years before his last and most successful film, "The Ten Commandments". "Joan the Woman" may have been the first Joan of Arc biopic...
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Posted aug 24, 2008 10:32 am pt

The Wizard of Oz
I remember crying at the end the first time I saw "The Wizard Of Oz" as a child. "There's no place like home" is the theme, and it's also a study in courage. It's touching to see the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion risk...
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Posted aug 24, 2008 10:01 am pt

The Wizard of Oz
I remember crying at the end the first time I saw "The Wizard Of Oz" as a child. "There's no place like home" is the theme, and it's also a study in courage. It's touching to see the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion risk...
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Posted aug 24, 2008 10:00 am pt

Mrs. Miniver
A classic war-time tale of a London community's struggle for survival amidst the Nazi Blitzkrieg over the city, centering on Garson and her family and circle of friends. A great period piece, well deserving of its Oscars.
Posted aug 24, 2008 9:22 am pt

The Searchers
Clearly one of the greatest westerns of all time. John Wayne is great as Ethan, the tough, hard, but caring uncle who spends years trying to find his niece, whose family was massacred by Indians. When he finds her, he is appalled that she has...
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Posted aug 24, 2008 9:11 am pt

The Song of Bernadette
A beautiful movie from start to finish. Jennifer Jones is thouroughly convincing in her screen debut as the humble, sweet French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous who receives visitations from the Virgin Mary, and eventually convinces the Catholic...
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Posted aug 22, 2008 11:59 am pt

Double Indemnity
"Double Indemnity" is one of the best of the B&W film noir of the 1940s and 50s. You get the rare opportunity to see Edward G. Robinson as a hero alongside Fred MacMurray as a villain (Barbara Stanwyck is usually a diva, and her role...
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Posted aug 22, 2008 8:13 am pt

Since You Went Away
Part of my reason for giving "Since You Went Away" such a high rating is because it was one of my mother's favorite movies, but even so, it still deserves five stars. Made about a year and a half or so before the war's (WWII) end, it...
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Posted aug 21, 2008 1:38 pm pt

The FBI Story
"The F.B.I. Story" is educational besides exciting. Among other things, we learn that it was "Machine Gun" Kelly who coined the term "G-Men" in reference to FBI agents. There is also human drama, as agent Chip...
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Posted aug 21, 2008 1:17 pm pt

Capricorn One
I read somewhere that the makers of this movie were inspired by the "moom hoax" theories (that NASA faked the moon landings) even though they didn't really subscribe to them. In "Capricorn One", a space agency, a fictional...
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Posted aug 20, 2008 12:36 pm pt

Marty
Marty is one of my favorite movies, partly because I can identify somewhat with the title character. It was a surprise Oscar winner of Best Picture, and Best Actor for Borgnine, for 1955. The synopsis above says his mother ran his life, but I...
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Posted aug 20, 2008 8:55 am pt


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