Open Game – Our Strange Love for Martha Ivers David Melville March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film “You’re insane. You’re out of your mind. Me too! You see how close we are to each other?” - Kirk Douglas to Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers It is a dark and stormy night. The oldest and m...
Stella Dallas: The Female Hero in the Maternal Melodrama Gwendolyn Audrey Foster March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937) is the most well known and celebrated of the genre known as the ‘maternal melodrama.’ Stella Dallas (Barbara Stanwyck) is but one of many unsung female heroes who sacrifice, yet...
Individualism and Populism in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941) Sandra E. Lim March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941), is the story of down and out baseball player Long John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), who having never quite made it to the major league, has taken up the carefree life of a hobo, ...
Night Nurse (1931) Wheeler Winston Dixon March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Oh, ethics . . . ethics . . . ethics! That's all I've heard. Isn't there any ethics about letting poor little babies be murdered?” – Barbara Stanwyck as nurse Lora Hart in Night Nurse. There are precious f...
There’s Always Tomorrow John Flaus October 2014 John Flaus Dossier Originally published in Annotations on Film, ed. Michael Koller, Melbourne Cinémathèque, Melbourne, 1990, p. 53. Republished with the permission of the author and the Melbourne Cinémathèque. The most penetrati...
Sorry, Wrong Number Wendy Haslem October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sorry, Wrong Number (1948 USA 89 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Hal Wallis Productions/Paramount Prod: Hal Wallis, Anatole Litvak Dir: Anatole Litvak Scr: Lucille Fletcher, based on her own play Phot: Sol ...
“The Far Side of Paradise”: Douglas Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow Adrian Danks October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film There's Always Tomorrow (1956 USA 84 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Universal International Prod: Ross Hunter Dir: Douglas Sirk Scr: Bernard C. Schoenfeld, based on a story by Ursula Parrott Phot: Russell ...
Baby Face Kendahl Cruver October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Baby Face (1933 USA 77 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: William LeBaron, Raymond Griffith Dir: Alfred E. Green Scr: Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola, from a story by Mark Canfield ...
The Bitter Tea of General Yen Kevin Lee October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932 USA 89 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Prod: Walter Wanger Dir: Frank Capra Scr: Edward E. Paramore, Jr., based on the novel by Grace Zari...
No Man of Her Own Geoff Mayer October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film No Man of Her Own (1950 USA 98 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Pictures Prod: Richard Maibaum Dir: Mitchell Leisen Scr: Sally Benson, Catherine Turney based on the novel I Married a Dead Man by Co...
Forty Guns Tony Williams October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Forty Guns (1957 USA 80 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Twentieth Century-Fox/Globe Enterprises Prod, Dir, Scr: Samuel Fuller Phot: Joseph Biroc Ed: Gene Fowler Prod Des: Walter M. Scott, Chester Bayhi Mus:...
Forbidden Robert Keser October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Forbidden (1932 US 83 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Dir: Frank Capra Scr: Jo Swerling Phot: Joseph Walker Ed: Maurice Wright Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralp...