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Written by James M. Tate / 10/31/2023 / No comments / ants , barry van dyke , bernie casey , brian dennehy , creature , eco horror , myrna loy , robert foxworth , seventies , steve franken , suzanne somers

SUZANNE SOMERS, ROBERT FOXWORTH & BERNIE CASEY IN 'ANTS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7mGqZnhrQCFkJHNID7_d0tPhfHTaloFc0HLrct2rbjdZ-mSI4YTtS3EtPeQcO7RFFT5PJqlP4UFjKtLcNhM5cnvNPbBil0Zb2X-Nz5fsCaOoM8T_U-Rnh1CgES7gDhMZ6NQkdw9xOIaHbAj7LdHV0yZhuDMjDnQQMJg5mtTwVMbJWVfGVF29vfRt1evv/s1708/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="1708" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7mGqZnhrQCFkJHNID7_d0tPhfHTaloFc0HLrct2rbjdZ-mSI4YTtS3EtPeQcO7RFFT5PJqlP4UFjKtLcNhM5cnvNPbBil0Zb2X-Nz5fsCaOoM8T_U-Rnh1CgES7gDhMZ6NQkdw9xOIaHbAj7LdHV0yZhuDMjDnQQMJg5mtTwVMbJWVfGVF29vfRt1evv/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Television-movie originally titled IT HAPPENED AT LAKEWOOD MANOR sounded more like a ghost story than eco-horror/exploitation, so ANTS — that can either maim or kill after a few quick bites — works much better...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Initially discovered in an investigative fashion by construction foreman Robert Foxworth and worker Bernie Casey, restoring the exterior grounds of a classic hotel about to be sold from sweet Myrna Loy to crooked Gerald Gordon (like Melvyn Douglas and Kevin McCarthy in HOTEL)...</p><span></span>

ants, barry van dyke, bernie casey, brian dennehy, creature, eco horror, myrna loy, robert foxworth, seventies, steve franken, suzanne somers

SUZANNE SOMERS, ROBERT FOXWORTH & BERNIE CASEY IN 'ANTS'

Title: ANTS Year: 1977 Rating: **** Television-movie originally titled IT HAPPENED AT LAKEWOOD MANOR sounded more like a ghost story than ec...

BURT REYNOLDS DIRECTS AND STARS IN TO DIE IN 'THE END'

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burt reynolds, carl reiner, dark comedy, david steinberg, dom deluise, joanne woodward, kristy mcnichol, myrna loy, norman fell, pat o'brien, robby benson, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS DIRECTS AND STARS IN TO DIE IN 'THE END'

Burt Reynolds in THE END Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Best remembered for the last half-hour involving Burt Reynolds, as a dying man with less ...

DANA ANDREWS STARRING IN 'THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo in Best Years circa 1946</u></td></tr>
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For a nearly three-hour film, the first hour (fifty-four minutes to be exact) is set in the course of one day and all night, something rare for that time, 1946, just after World War II ended...<br>
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As THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES has an ironic title being those YEARS are never shown, and only spoken of once, with bitter sarcasm by the token lush played by Virginia Mayo: And her "Best Years" aren't even known, nor were they experienced by three men, our leads back from the war but by the family and friends, where a particular amnesia of the soldier's importance...<br>
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And what they did, including dying, overseas, has struck the United States, especially rough for manly leading man Dana Andrews as Captain Fred Derry, whose aforementioned cheating wife, Mayo, and a dilapidated parental home/shack awaits, and even the smallest of jobs... working at the ladies section of a drugstore (which were supermarkets in those days) and then his old gig as a soda jerk... is tough to keep.<br>

classic, dana andrews, ensemble, forties, fredrick march, gladys george, harold russell, hoagy carmichael, myrna loy, ray collins, teresa wright, virginia mayo, war

DANA ANDREWS STARRING IN 'THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES'

Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo in Best Years circa 1946 For a nearly three-hour film, the first hour (fifty-four minutes to be exact) is...

CLARK GABLE STARS IN MANHATTAN MELODRAMA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1934 rating: ***1/2</td></tr>
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It’s difficult not to think of MANHATTAN MELODRAMA as anything other than John Dillinger’s Waterloo... <br />
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The bank robbing icon watched this picture at Chicago's Biograph Theater before fatally greeting a bevy of gun-toting G-Men. Beside him was Anna Sage, the Lady in Red, and perhaps, as the movie flickered up on that screen, she related to William Powell’s guilt-ridden District Attorney turned Governor who sends his friend to the electric chair... But that’s skipping ahead, and already the Dillinger lore has encroached this review.<br />
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We begin with two youngsters on the wrong side of the tracks. Blackie Gallagher (how can you be anything but a criminal with that name?) and Jim Wade survive a terrible boat accident and, to make a short story shorter, Jim studies hard while Young Blackie (Mickey Rooney) shoots craps on that money-making wide road of excess.<br />
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Skip twenty some years later and the boys have completely different trades yet there’s one connection other than the past. Myrna Loy, as Blackie’s reluctant moll, wants out of the rackets. She winds up with Jim and they’re a match made in heaven. The best scenes involve Blackie wielding a gun – Clark Gable plays a gangster with gruff precision while Powell’s idealist do-gooder isn’t preachy or annoying, like these type of stuffed shirts can be in the “crime doesn’t pay” films.<br />
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The acting between the three leads is hardly dated; they really seem to know and love each other. And although the slick pace hits a wall once Blackie’s jailed, he walks the Green Mile with the type of confidence that we can only wonder if Dillinger had strolling out the Biograph lobby. Only <i>he</i> didn’t know what was coming...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben Johnson as Melvin Purvis outside the Biograph in DILLINGER (1973)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lawrence Tierney's last laugh as DILLINGER (1945)</td></tr>
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clark gable, classic gangster, film noir or melodrama, myrna loy, thirties, william powell