NEW TO ME:
Allotment Wives {1945) Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger. Minor Francis film, but the subject was very timely in 1945. Women marrying GI's for their allotment checks and the agents who broke the racket. Kay is one of the women and in charge of the younger girls. Kelly is the agent who ends the scam. 7/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037505/combined
Treasure Of The Golden Condor (1953) Cornel Wilde, Anne Bancroft, Constance Smith, George Macready, Fay Wray. Usual sand and sword melodrama. Mayan gold is the treasure. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046457/combined
Kiss Of Death (1995) David Caruso, Nic Cage, Katherine Erbe, Samuel Jackson, Helen Hunt, Stanley Tucci. Based loosely on the 1947 noir classic, this can't begin to hold a candle to the earlier film. Caruso is no Victor Mature. Cage plays crazy well, but is no Richard Widmark and there is no iconic scene such as the pushing grandma down the stairsas in the earlier film. In fact it is so boring I quit half way through. 3/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113552/combined
High Fidelity (2000) John Curack, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack. Rom/com about a sad sack guy who runs a vintage record shop and has nutty friends and employees. Mainly about his love life. 6/10 . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/combined
ENCORES:
It's A Date {1940) Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pigeon. Mom's a Broadway star who goes on a trip to Hawaii to rest and learn new part. Deanna is her daughter who wants to be an actress. Mixups and fun and good music make a pleasant film. 8/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032644/combined
Play Girl (1941) Kay Francis, Mildred Cole, Margaret Hamilton, James Elison, Nigel Bruce. Aging gold-digger takes on a young girl and coaches her in the ways of the world and how to take men for the moeny they will fork over. As usual, Kay wears fantastic fashions. The cast makes the film fun. 8/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032916/combined
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