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Cause for Alarm, a review by addicted2dvd

Cause for Alarm (1951)
While a man recuperates from a heart-attack, he obsesses with the thought that his wife and his doctor are having an affair, so decides to write a letter to the D.A. accusing the two of trying to kill him. After his wife mails the letter for him, he tells her of its contents which provokes his anger and he attacks her, dying on the spot from another heart attack. Though innocent, she is nevertheless desperate to somehow get the letter back.

My Thoughts:
This is another one that was in that free Total Movie boxset I got... and one of the few I have seen before. I enjoyed it this time just as much as the first time I saw it. It is a very good suspense thriller... and another one that is pretty short compared to movies we get now a day. This one clocks in at 74 minutes. Loretta Young did a marvelous job in this movie. This is one I would definitely recommend to any classic movie fan.

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Oldies but Goodies on March 28th, 2008)

Rashômon, a review by Antares

Year: 1950
Film Studio: Daiei Studios
Genre: Drama, Classic
Length: 88 Min.

Director
Akira Kurosawa (1910)

Writer
Akira Kurosawa (1910)...Writer
Shinobu Hashimoto (1918)...Writer

Producer
Minoru Jingo
Masaichi Nagata (1906)

Cinematographer
Kazuo Miyagawa (1908)

Music
Fumio Hayasaka (1914)...Composer

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Ratings Criterion
5 Stars - The pinnacle of film perfection and excellence.


(From Rashômon (1950) on December 4th, 2009)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

Birds of Prey


Pilot
Birds take wing. Oracle, Huntress an Dinah work as one against Quinn's New Gotham power grab.

My Thoughts:
Even though I definitely enjoyed it... the pilot episode was not quite as good as I remember it being. In this episode Oracle and Huntress first meet Dinah... and take her in after she helps them with the case they are working on. It has someone preying on people's fears similar to the way the Batman villain "The Scarecrow" did... minus the costume and such. We also hear the story on how Oracle and Huntress gets together... and what happened to Batman. So that really is a lot of information to put into an hour long pilot episode.

My Rating:

(From Pete's Pilots on November 4th, 2009)