Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide: From the Silent Era Through 1965: Third Edition by Leonard Maltin

Author:Leonard Maltin [Maltin, Leonard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-09-29T06:00:00+00:00

Man on Fire (1957) 95m. ½ D: Ranald MacDougall. Bing Crosby, Mary Fickett, Inger Stevens, E. G. Marshall, Malcolm Broderick, Anne Seymour, Richard Eastham. Divorced father (Crosby) refuses to grant his remarried ex-wife partial custody of their son in this modest domestic drama.

Man on the Eiffel Tower, The (1949) C-97m. D: Burgess Meredith. Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace, Patricia Roc, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Belita. Tiresome adaptation of a Georges Simenon thriller with Laughton as Inspector Maigret and Tone as a madman who thinks he can carry out a perfect crime. Meredith’s directorial debut, filmed entirely in Paris. Shot in experimental AnscoColor process; most surviving prints don’t look very good.

Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) 65m. ½ D: Clyde Bruckman. W. C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Vera Lewis, Walter Brennan. Hilarious Fieldsian study in frustration, with able assistance from hardboiled wife Howard, good-for-nothing Sutton. Best sequence has W. C. receiving four traffic tickets in a row!

Man or Gun (1958) 79m. D: Albert Gannaway. Macdonald Carey, Audrey Totter, James Craig, James Gleason. Bland Western with Carey cleaning up the town. Filmed in Naturama.

Manpower (1941) 102m. D: Raoul Walsh. Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Alan Hale, Walter Catlett, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden. Lively, typical Warner Bros. film, with nightclub “hostess” Dietrich coming between high-voltage power line workers Robinson and Raft. Scene in a diner is worth the price of admission.

Man-Proof (1938) 74m. D: Richard Thorpe. Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Nana Bryant, Rita Johnson, Ruth Hussey. Flimsy plot with bright stars: Loy and Russell both love Pidgeon, but Tone is ready to step in any time.

Man’s Castle (1933) 69m. ½ D: Frank Borzage. Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Arthur Hohl, Walter Connolly, Glenda Farrell, Dickie Moore. Typically lovely Borzage romance; penniless Young moves in with shantytown tough guy Tracy, hoping to develop a real relationship in spite of his reluctance. Tracy’s ultra-macho character is a bit tough to stomach at times, but film’s enormous heart conquers all, bolstered by appealing performances. Originally released at 75m.

Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964) C-120m. ½ D: Howard Hawks. Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, John McGiver, Maria Perschy, Roscoe Karns, Charlene Holt. Amusing, often labored variation on Hawks’ own BRINGING UP BABY. Fishing “expert” Hudson, who in reality has never fished, is forced to enter big tournament by pushy Prentiss (in her best performance). Loaded with slapstick and sexual innuendo; Norman Alden is hilarious as wisecracking Indian guide.

Manslaughter (1922) 100m. ½ D: Cecil B. DeMille. Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Jack Mower, Raymond Hatton. Melodramatic account of wealthy, self-centered jazz baby Joy and her fate after causing the death of a motorcycle cop; Meighan is the district attorney who loves yet prosecutes her. Meant to condemn 1920s-style debauchery, but not without its titillating images; the Roman orgy fantasy sequence is vintage DeMille. Remade in 1930.

Man They Could Not Hang, The (1939) 65m. ½ D: Nick Grinde. Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray (Adrian Booth), Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor, Ann Doran.

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