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Edwin Schallert

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 93% EDIT “It's more than simply a thriller. It has a sociological and philosophic side, besides being vastly interesting and exciting. ” – Los Angeles Times Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 95% EDIT “"Confessions of a Nazi Spy" is stunningly acted.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% EDIT “[It] has been lavishly staged in the manner of the films. The Brock suite in the Washington hotel is spectacular and modernistic. ” – Los Angeles Times Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Only Yesterday (1933) 100% EDIT “The plot is skillfully presented, though details are overemphasized, and at times the picture drags considerably. But it offers a sensitively told story, and one that will reach many hearts. ” – Los Angeles Times Apr 23, 2024 Full Review The Caine Mutiny (1954) 95% EDIT “Both Johnson and MacMurray are bound to win special accolades for their offbeat portrayals in the adaptation of the Herman Wouk novel.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 19, 2024 Full Review The Big Heat (1953) 95% EDIT “Outside of some highly specialized touches of brutality, the picture travels old familiar highways. Wherefor only the fact that Lang was involved in The Big Heat gives it more than the ordinary distinction of a crime melodrama.” – Los Angeles Times Apr 10, 2024 Full Review The Searchers (1956) 87% EDIT “While Ford has often probed the West for his dramas and his rare scenic panoramas, he seems in The Searchers to have penetrated more deeply than usual into life on the frontier.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 25, 2024 Full Review The Devil Dancer (1927) 71% EDIT “[The Devil Dancer] has elements of appeal because of the novelty of its settings and Its atmosphere.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 5, 2023 Full Review The Black Pirate (1926) 100% EDIT “Nothing exceeds that dazzling bit of athletic prowess of his when he seems to slide from the top of the masts clear down to the deck, cutting a slash the while athwart a sail.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2023 Full Review Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 96% EDIT “The cyclonic finish of this film is the best part of its entertainment, but it is not a bad feature otherwise. There are many laughable moments, assured through gags that, taken by and large, are clever and different.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Lotus Blossom (1921) 80% EDIT “Except for some abruptness in the approach to the climax, the story is a very interesting and a truly appealing one. It is told with a fine sympathy for the leading characters.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 10, 2023 Full Review The Dark Angel (1935) 94% EDIT “This production, exceptionally well cast throughout... should enjoy the laurels of a popular effect in the annals of the screen.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 10, 2023 Full Review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 88% EDIT “This production is enriched with lavishness and Technicolor and everything to make it glittering for the eye. ” – Los Angeles Times Mar 7, 2023 Full Review Sayonara (1957) 82% EDIT “Truly this is a provocative feature to come to the screen as an example of Joshua Logan's direction, the writing of James Michener, and performances of the cast headed by Marlon Brando.” – Los Angeles Times Mar 2, 2023 Full Review The Girl in the Rain (1920) 80% EDIT “The picture has all the elements or suspense and excitement that you find In our best crook plays. It's a feature that you'll never regret the seeing.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 27, 2023 Full Review Frankenstein (1931) 94% EDIT “It is nothing to shout about esthetically, but thrill stuff does the trick. Whoever thought up the makeup for Boris Karloff is the real star of the film. One look from those leaden-lidded eyes and the audience is ready to believe anything that happens.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 18, 2023 Full Review The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 100% EDIT “That gold changes the character of men who are fortunate enough to find it is the central thesis of this curiously powerful production.” – Los Angeles Times Jan 12, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “The note that prevails is one of spontaneity and naturalness, no matter how artificial the happenings in themselves. There is as a result an overtone of warmth and humanness which is bound to captivate, and that lends a glow to a boy meets girl story. ” – Los Angeles Times Dec 29, 2022 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is an evocation of magic of that magic which can only exist in imagination and the mind. It is untrammeled by human equations. In the purest sense of creation it is Being.” – Los Angeles Times Dec 21, 2022 Full Review Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 82% EDIT “Really in the Academy class for supporting honors is Celeste Holm, who brings joy and gayety, as well as good common sense to the screen in her thoroughly ingratiating rendition of her role of everybody's friend.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 16, 2022 Full Review King Kong (1933) 97% EDIT “This is a great circus show. And it outdoes circuses, because it has its own menagerie. The kind that a paleontologist would rave about, and the sort that will make you believe that the screen has grown up overnight scientifically. ” – Los Angeles Times Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “Frank Capra goes to town in probably the most hair-raising adventure along political, social and patriotic lines that has ever been conceived for the movies. This is an emotional high point in the singularly gifted director's creative career.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “While The Shop Around the Corner lacks the political horizons of Ninotchka, it is a picture of infinite charm, and no little graceful humor --one of Lubitsch's best productions. It yields also, perhaps, Miss Sullavan's performance of greatest finesse.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 7, 2022 Full Review The Thief of Bagdad (1924) 97% EDIT “Never its like has been seen before; never its like will be viewed again for many a day. It is the first and the last, the magical height and the iridescent depth of fantasy.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 22, 2022 Full Review The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) 96% EDIT “I recommend heartily this somewhat daring Teutonic dive into the troubled waters of ellipsoids, parabaloids, conic sections, and chiarscura, the terminology of which is quite sufficient to indicate that the bars are up to the normal mind.” – Los Angeles Times Oct 3, 2022 Full Review
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