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Monday Jun 29 | Pacific Sun

Books: Play it again, Sam

"He had a long bony jaw," Gores writes, "a flexible mouth, a jutting chin... He was six feet tall with broad, steeply sloping shoulders." Yet that non-Bogart figure is exactly true to the original Spade, as created by Dashiell Hammett.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, The Maltese Falcon, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Mystery Movies, Humphrey Bogart, Dashiell Hammett, Vocal, San Anselmo, CA, San Francisco Metro

Fri Jun 05, 2009

James Wolcott's Blog

Partners in Sublime

Self-Styled Siren pays tribute to one of classic Hollywood's greatest odd couples , Sydney Greenstreet, he of the Edmund Wilson helium-filled, patrician girth, and Peter Lorre.

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Related Topix: Hollywood, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Film Noir, The Maltese Falcon, Mystery Movies, Action Movies, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre

Sun Apr 26, 2009

DigitallyOBSESSED.com

Forbidden Holly

Six films' worth of pre-Code goodness, from the TCM Archives. I'm a naughty boy for having such a fondness for pre-Hays Code Hollywood pictures.

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Related Topix: Hollywood, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Grant Withers, Regis Toomey, Barbara Stanwyck

Tue Apr 21, 2009

DigitallyOBSESSED.com

Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Three

Studio: Warner Home Video Year: 1932-33 Cast: Mary Astor, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, George Barnet, Lyle Talbot, Loretta Young Director: William A. Wellman Release Date: March 31, 2009 Rating: Not Rated for Run Time: 07h:01m:46s Genre : compilation Six films' worth of pre-Code goodness, from the TCM Archives.

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Related Topix: The Purchase Price, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Lyle Talbot, Loretta Young

Mon Apr 20, 2009

DVD Verdict

Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Three

Other Men's Women 1931 // 70 Minutes // Not Rated Frisco Jenny 1932 // 70 Minutes // Not Rated The Purchase Price 1932 // 68 Minutes // Not Rated Heroes For Sale 1933 // 71 Minutes // Not Rated Midnight Mary 1933 // 74 Minutes // Not Rated Wild Boys Of The Road 1933 // 68 Minutes // Not Rated Released by Warner Bros.

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Related Topix: Grant Withers, Barbara Stanwyck

Wed Apr 15, 2009

San Francisco Examiner

Early films screen at Niles

The Edison Theatre at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, California is one of the best places in the Bay Area to see silent and early sound films.

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Related Topix: Fremont, CA, Hollywood, Drama Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies

Sun Mar 29, 2009

Deseret News

'Forbidden Hollywood'

Here's a disparate batch of movies new to DVD, led by a third collection of pre-Production Code films that were quite adult for their time.

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Related Topix: Hollywood, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama, Musical Movies, The Public Enemy, Crime Movies, Action, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck

Fri Mar 27, 2009

Paper Magazine

Pre-Code Madness: Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Three on DVD

Forbidden Hollywood: Volume Three is a great set of pre-Code classics directed by "Wild Bill" William Wellman who cranked out 21 films in four years in the early 30s while working for Warner Brothers -- everything from tough minded melodramas to socially conscious dramas.

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Related Topix: Hollywood, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama, Musical Movies, The Public Enemy, Crime Movies, Action, Dakota, Western, Grant Withers, Regis Toomey

Thu Mar 26, 2009

USA Today

Two box sets reveal racy Hollywood before the Code

Hollywood's salacious past keeps catching up with it. Two more sets of saucy classics from the early 1930s, before Hollywood began policing itself with its rigid Production Code, are bound for DVD in the coming weeks.

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Related Topix: Hollywood, Short, Comedy Movies, Drama, Musical Movies, The Purchase Price, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Chatterton, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Feb 26, 2009

Orange County Review

O.C. Library programs

March 2 Sign-up starts for our Book Lovers' Club, a reading program for adults. Library cardholders 19 and older can sign up for a chance to win one of our great prizes just by reading books.

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Related Topix: Film Noir, The Maltese Falcon, Mystery Movies, Drama, Action, Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Preschoolers, Family

Fri Feb 20, 2009

DigitallyOBSESSED.com

TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three: William Wellman at Warner Bros.

For Immediate Release TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three: William Wellman at Warner Bros.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Purchase Price, Comedy Movies, Barbara Stanwyck, Loretta Young

Tue Feb 10, 2009

DVD Times

Forbidden Hollywood Volume 3 (R1) in March

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of TCM Archives: Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume 3 on 24th March 2009 priced at $49.92 SRP.

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Related Topix: The Purchase Price, Drama, Comedy Movies, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Female

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