semi-pro (2008)

Lots of nice touches. Such as Dick Pepperfield. Felt like a real guy.

the prowler (1951)

Chewy and campy. Concerns a police officer and a married woman who reports a prowler on her property. Van Heflin plays the cop in a fruit-and-seeds way that makes me imagine a late 70s remake starring Rutger Hauer. Has anyone healthy ever really shaved with an electric razor while lying in bed?

hula (1927)

Clive Brook

lonelyhearts (1958)

Montgomery Clift. As much as I like watching Montgomery Clift act, I would have cast Anthony Perkins. Actually, I wouldn't have bothered to make this movie at all.

the big lift (1950)

Montgomery Clift as an airman in the operation to fly goods past the blockade into West Berlin. Feels fresh like the beginnings of a cinema made from scratch. If they made it again today, I hope Peter Stormare would play the Russian spy.

wolf song (1929)

I cheated on the Montgomery Clift retrospective on the basis of this photograph in the Film Forum schedule. It turns out that Gary Cooper in the movie isn't such pure liquid hotness. But ordinary hotness is ok too, and he washes up in the river.

the virginian (1929)

Gary Cooper as a lanky goofy cowboy.