FanFare

A sweet, funny 1941 romcom starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Directed by Howard Hawks. Co-written by Billy Wilder. New York City contains both a house of eight scholars toiling away on an encyclopedia AND a nightclub singer being pushed around by mobsters. Can nerdery, a garbage collector, and a collection of shenanigans get everything to come out right? Viewable for free on Internet Archive.
posted by brainwane on Jan 8, 2025 - 10 comments

When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Mar 5, 2023 - 2 comments

[TRAILER] A penniless drifter (Gary Cooper) is recruited by an ambitious columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 19, 2023 - 1 comment

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Sep 27, 2022 - 4 comments

This film-noir stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a housewife who wishes her husband were dead, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims. The term "double indemnity" refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in cases when death is caused while riding a railway or other public transport means. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Aug 25, 2015 - 17 comments