A muslim kid works to help out his family, but struggles as an immigrant...assimilation by changes his name is only approved by his father if he passes his algebra test! Totally a minimal side plot that stood out to me.
"In Hyde Park, some people like to feed nuts to the squirrels. But if it makes you happy to feed squirrels to the nuts, who am I to say nuts to the squirrels?"
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Movie comment on So This Is Paris
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References The Sheik (1921). Artists' ball dance scene is amazing.Movie comment on Times Square
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Part of TCM's Underground series in 2020.Movie comment on Scorpio
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Interesting shots of Washington D.C.'s NOMA area, including the old Greyhound Bus station that is no more.Movie comment on A Fool There Was
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This cover image used on icheckmovies, as of November 2019, is from the 1922 version.Movie comment on Nightfall
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They come and they go...smiles.Movie comment on The Wonderful Country
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"What a pity then, that life is what we do and not what we feel."Movie comment on Dead Reckoning
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"...came to me like a photograph to my eyelids."Movie comment on Feel My Pulse
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Lots of physical comedy and William Powell! The chloroform scene was very special and reminiscent of gags in animation.Movie comment on Rembrandt
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"You can rest in the big chair while I'm working."Movie comment on Curtiz
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U.S. premiere at the Washington D.C. Independent Film Festival.Movie comment on Craig's Wife
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Directed by the only female director in Hollywood in the mid-1930s. William Haines is uncredited for art direction.Movie comment on Two Sisters from Boston
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June Allyson's character mentions a hurdy gurdy man!Movie comment on This Could Be the Night
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Hussein Mohammed > Harry Armani.A muslim kid works to help out his family, but struggles as an immigrant...assimilation by changes his name is only approved by his father if he passes his algebra test! Totally a minimal side plot that stood out to me.
Movie comment on The Life of Jimmy Dolan
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"What's the matter? Are you blue or are you yellow?" --Peggy (Loretta Young)Movie comment on Red Light
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"That's one of those places where they put you in a sleeping bag and hang ya on a stick."Movie comment on Born to Dance
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Jimmy Stewart dances!Movie comment on My Forbidden Past
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"Don't do any thinking. It's bad for the complexion."Movie comment on Deadline at Dawn
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"Well, this is New York where a hello means good bye."Movie comment on Desire
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"She could start a revolution with me anytime."Movie comment on The Strawberry Blonde
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"Will you stop being a pussy willow?"Movie comment on The Rage of Paris
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"Girls nowadays don't eat no more than a hummingbird." (Pops)Movie comment on The Rage of Paris
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"I always said when he got spliced, he'd pick out a lollapalooza like you...I hope you'll be as happy as two jay birds in a cherry tree." (says Pops)Movie comment on Cluny Brown
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"In Hyde Park, some people like to feed nuts to the squirrels. But if it makes you happy to feed squirrels to the nuts, who am I to say nuts to the squirrels?"Delightful!
Movie comment on The Major and the Minor
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"I'll try to be a better lightbulb..."Movie comment on Times Square Playboy
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"I heard you feel some kind of bluey."Showing items 1 – 25 of 36