Favorite Flix
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Friday’s Favorite Flix – The Enemy Below
This week's Friday's Favorite Flix is Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation's 1957 Academy Award winning film (for Special Effects), “The Enemy Below.” Directed by Dick Powell, the film is about an American Destroyer Escort that discovers a German U-boat while on...
Friday’s Favorite Flix – A Walk In the Clouds
This week's Friday's Favorite Flix is Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation's PG-13 “A Walk in the Clouds.” Directed by Alfonso Arau, “A Walk in the Clouds” is a post World War II period, visually beautiful, musically rich, gently romantic film containing no nudity,...
Friday’s Favorite Flix – Young Frankenstein
The film ”Young Frankenstein” is one of the quintessential Mel Brooks movies and one of our favorite flix. With this film, Brooks takes a subject that has previously been treated as a horror genre and re-makes it into a comedy. This black and white revision of the...
Friday’s Favorite Flix – Big Jake
This week's Friday's Favorite Flix, “Big Jake,” is set in 1909 and takes place in Southern Texas, near the Mexican border and in Mexico. The film tells two stories. The main story is the kidnapping of a small boy for ransom and the resulting outcome. The sub-plot is...
Friday’s Favorite Flix – The Great Race
Included on my list of favorite directors is Blake Edwards. The number of his movies that will eventually show up in this column is quite high for a single director. We'll start it off with his 1965 slapstick, action/comedy, “The Great Race”. Produced by...