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"Goodbye, Jennifer, be a bad girl."

I MARRIED A WITCH (1942) | dir René Clair

I Married a Witch (1942) René Clair

March 17th 2026

#i married a witch #1942 #rené clair #veronica lake #fredric march #robert benchley #susan hayward #cecil kellaway #Robert Warwick #elizabeth patterson #he married a witch

Have you seen Sullivan’s Travels (1941)?

Yes

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onApr 13, 2025

#polls #movies #sullivan’s travels #sullivans travels #40s movies #old hollywood #preston sturges #joel mccrea #veronica lake #robert warwick #william demarest #franklin pangborn #have you seen this movie poll

Errol Flynn and Robert Warwick on set of Vincent Sherman’s ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN (1948).

#errol flynn #robert warwick #behind the scenes #classic movies #adventures of don juan

Doctor X (1932)

"If you ask me, I think Dr. Xavier is using very unethical methods."

"Necessity has no ethics, sir."

#doctor x #1932 #american cinema #pre code film #horror film #michael curtiz #robert tasker #earl baldwin #howard warren comstock #allen c. miller #lionel atwill #fay wray #lee tracy #preston foster #john wray #harry beresford #arthur edmund carewe #leila bennett #robert warwick #george rosener #willard robertson #solid good time pre code horror (and another off the Rocky Horror list; actually this could be the last i had to see?) (also contrary to #the lyrics of Science Fiction/Double Feature‚ at no point does the titular Dr build 'a creature') but yeah anywa #anyway*‚ this was one of a very few films made with a pioneering two tone technicolor process that was quickly abandoned in the face of #public apathy; once considered a lost film‚ that version was found in the 80s and is now happily available in a beautiful restoration and i #gotta say it looks absolutely phenomenal‚ full of deep‚ ominous greens and purples. the plot is some hokum about a string of murders #possibly involving the good Dr (an as always impeccable Atwill‚ at the beginning of his all too brief run as a star) and his rogues gallery #of weirdy scientific associates. it's par for the course for early horror cinema‚ complete with mildly exasperating comic foil hero (but by #far not the worst example of the type) and some rather risqué dialogue that absolutely wouldn't have got past the code a few years on #could have done with more focus on the horror and less on the funny business but so it goes and at least the laboratory stuff looks amazing

Outfits from In a Lonely Place (1950)

Art Direction by Robert Peterson Set Decoration by William Kiernan Costume Design by Jean Louis (gowns) Makeup artist Clay Campbell Hair stylist Helen Hunt

#in a lonely place #1950 #gloria grahame #humphrey bogart #frank lovejoy #jeff donnell #hadda brooks #ruth warren #robert warwick #art smith #nicholas ray #50s fashion #50s hair #1950s film #50s movies #outfits #costume design #yes there was a hair stylist called helen hunt completely unrelated to the other helen hunt #as far as I can tell

In 1917, two Royal Corp pilots on patrol over France got attacked by Germans in World War I. Alexander Mackaye thought he was done for when his wing man flew into a cloud and actually disappeared. In actuality, the other pilot was transferred 42 years into the future. ("The Last Flight", Twilight Zone, TV, Event)

#nerds yearbook #1917 #wwi #world war i #dog fight #tz #twilight zone #richard matheson #rod serling #william f claxton #kenneth haigh #alexander scourby #simon scott #robert warwick #harry raybould #jerry catron #paul baxley #jack perkins

Impact

“Charming” isn’t a word normally associated with film noir, yet it fits Arthur Lubin’s IMPACT (1949, TCM, Tubi, Plex, Prime, YouTube). From the intricate plot in which everything falls neatly into place to the location photography in San Francisco and Larkspur, CA, to, most importantly, the not quite love scenes between Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines, it’s an ongoing delight. Wealthy industrialist Donlevy is driving to Denver for a plant opening when his wife (Helen Walker) contrives to have her lover go along for the ride and kill him. The lover is neither very good with a tire iron nor with a steering wheel and ends up dead in a fiery car crash while Donlevy, stunned to discover what the Mrs. had been doing, wanders the countryside until he winds up at war widow Raines’ filling station. Romance is as inevitable as Hollywood usually makes it. Meanwhile, police detective Charles Coburn, in one of his least fussy performances, tries to make sense out of the plot.

With lots of scenes shot on location (including the same San Francisco hotel where Kim Novak’s character stayed in VERTIGO), IMPACT is a lot sunnier than most film noirs, but the plot is so twisted and Walker such a great femme fatale it doesn’t matter. The script, by Dorothy Davenport (that’s Mrs. Wallace Reid to you) is a masterpiece of efficiency, with key facts and events planted effortlessly and events communicated through telegrams, newspaper headlines and even a radio broadcast by gossip columnist Sheilah Grahame. Raines was never distinctive enough to be a star, but she’s a darned good actress and lots better than you’d expect from a film noir good woman. Donlevy, whose leading man days were largely over by 1949, has beautiful moments as he realizes what’s going on in his life. Anna May Wong deserved a lot better than her brief role as Walker’s maid, but she delivers a solid performance in her next-to-last film. Her friend (and merkin?) Philip Ahn is on-hand in old-age makeup as her uncle. You may also spot Robert Warwick as a police captain, Clarence Kolb as chairman of Donlevy’s board, silent great Mae Marsh as Raines’ mother, Jason Robards, Sr. as a judge, Erskine Sanford as a doctor and horror film standby Morris Ankrum as Donlevy’s assistant.