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Deck the Halls December: Larceny Inc. (1942)
It's the holiday season and we are watching movies. Why don't you join us? RODNEY BOWCOCK : A few small-time crooks (Edward G. Robinson and Broderick Crawford) learn of an easy mark of a bank to rob while in prison and upon their release they purchase the leather goods store next to said bank with the plans to dig a tunnel underneath the bank into the vault. Soon however, business starts improving on the struggling store and Pressure Maxwell finds himself becoming a distingui
Samantha Glasser
6 hours ago5 min read


Deck the Halls December: Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
It's the holiday season and we are watching movies. Why don't you join us? RODNEY BOWCOCK : Mr. Soft Touch is a noirish Christmas comedy (but not really a comedy, just kind of lighter in tone) about a complicated con-man named Joe Miracle (Glenn Ford) who takes refuge in a settlement house run by Jenny Jones (Evelyn Keyes). There’s a series of amusing situations as Joe tries to acclimate himself to his new surroundings, but there’s also an ominous tone as the mob and a shady
Samantha Glasser
Dec 54 min read


Book Adaptations: Light in the Piazza (1962)
Light in the Piazza is a romantic film adapted from a novella of the same name written by Elizabeth Spencer. It follows a mother (Olivia de Havilland) and daughter (Yvette Mimieux) on vacation in Italy. The daughter is in her 20s but a head injury in childhood caused her maturity to stop advancing, so she has the mentality of a pre-teen. The mother is ultra protective of her daughter, but she cannot keep a young Italian man (George Hamilton) from becoming interested. Variety
Samantha Glasser
Nov 284 min read


November Nights: Night Must Fall (1937)
RODNEY BOWCOCK : Night Must Fall centers on a small English village shook with the news of a missing woman, and zeroes in on the home of a hypochondriac and her team of servants. One of these servants has found herself pregnant by a worker in the town who claims to want to marry her. When Danny (Robert Montgomery), the aforementioned layabout finally appears, he quickly ingrates himself into the household winning the affections of the old dowager (Dame May Whitty) and sets h
Samantha Glasser
Nov 216 min read
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