---recently I have watched:
Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938) Errol & Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains. Robin and the Merry Men of Sherwood Forrest fight evil King John. Rousing action, gorgeous Technicolor in the restored print. Never a dull moment and sheer fun. 10/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/
Sea Hawk (1940) Errol & Basil Rathbone, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson. Pirates for England and the Queen, against the Spanish. Robson is a great Queen Elizabeth and Marshall a beautiful Dona Maria who hates/loves our pirate. Great fun, but the sword fights get just a tad tiresome. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033028/
Frenchmans Creek (1944) Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone. Daphne du Maurier's romance novel gets a loving film, again made in gorgeous Technicolor. Pirates, the landed gentry in 18th century England with mansions, sailing ships and a romantic music score. A favorite for years and years. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036840/
Against All Odds (1984) Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark. Remake of the great "Out of The Past (1947)" with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas. Jane Greer played the Rachel Ward part in the original. She was deadly. Original 10/10. Remake - 6/10 It had great scenery. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086859/
Blood Work (2002) Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Houston. FBI profiler has a heart transplant and while recovering runs across clues to a serial killer. Sounds like a better story than it is. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309377/
Elegy (2008) Ben Kingsley, Penelope Cruz, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson. A college prof falls for and beds a beautiful student. He becomes more and more possessive and she leaves him. But the films goes on and on. His son hates him until he too becomes embroiled in affairs. Then they connect. LOL. After two years, his girl comes back and tells him she has breast cancer. Which gives them an excuse to have Cruz and her breasts on screen for about 10 minutes. Our prof manages to stick by her at the fade out after her surgery. Knowing his history of banal self indulgence, will he stick?/ Doubtful. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974554/
Looking forward to TCM's Gene Tierney day later this coming week. Still trying to stay cool and collected.....LOL
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