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Herbert Whittaker

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 93% EDIT “This director, Robert Wise, contents himself with a prosaic statement of immobility. ” – Globe and Mail Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Gaslight (1944) 94% EDIT “The film has excitement enough and to spare, with acting opportunities almost as generous. ” – Montreal Gazette Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “It is a slow-moving story, and the one thing that redeems it is the suspense endangered by wondering whether the hero will live to marry the girl in the small town.” – Montreal Gazette Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Alice in Wonderland (1951) 83% EDIT “What Disney has done, in addition to creating another of his beautifully colored inventions for cinema, is to reduce Alice once more to the nursery of the day. The more adult Alice will survive the shock. ” – Globe and Mail Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 95% EDIT “It lives up to the promise of its yellow-press title with an exceptionally well-produced, biased and exciting "expose of methods now being used to undermine American democracy."” – Montreal Gazette Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Born Yesterday (1950) 95% EDIT “It is an amazingly detailed performance, with gestures and movements added to the very funny lines to make every moment Miss Holliday is on the screen a matter for rib-tickling. ” – Globe and Mail Oct 13, 2025 Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “The two stars take its bright inconsequentially in their stride easily, though at times there seems to be a look in Miss Stanwyck's eye that suggested longing for something in her role of Miss Manton into which she could sink her teeth.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 22, 2024 Full Review National Velvet (1944) 98% EDIT “It is a simple tale and the screenplay does not complicate it in the telling, but under the direction of Clarence Brown it takes on an importance that weightier films might envy. ” – Montreal Gazette Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Back to Bataan (1945) 86% EDIT “Here's another strong action film, with imaginary events cleverly blended with modern historic ones to provide first-rate entertainment.” – Montreal Gazette Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “Its outstanding features are the typical Disney animals, the additions to the Disney picture gallery of characters in Grumpy, Sleepy, Bashful, Happy, Doc and Dopey, and the expert "dubbing in" of the music and voices.” – Montreal Gazette Dec 20, 2022 Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% EDIT “A remake of a ten-year-old detective story, it might very easily be overlooked as routine filmmaking. But make no such mistake, The Maltese Falcon is lively, original, intelligent and provocative entertainment and is not to be missed.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 16, 2022 Full Review Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 82% EDIT “This is the strength of the picture, that it does not allow you to sit back and say "How can any civilized person behave like that?" but rather makes you ask yourself "Is that what I do?"” – Montreal Gazette Nov 16, 2022 Full Review Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 99% EDIT “I have never been in St. Louis... I have never attended a World's Fair. I wasn't alive in 1903. But by the time Meet Me In St Louis was over, there was I, feeling quite homesick for that Missouri city... and full of nostalgia for those Good Old Days.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “Perhaps the greatest effectiveness of the picture is its utilization of the democratic -- no, the universal impulse to "tell 'em." Senator Smith is given the opportunity in his film life to do what most of in achieve only in our fondest day-dreams.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “The small cast is well chosen, with Frank Morgan, Felix Bressart, William Tracy and Joseph Schildkraut supplying interesting and amusing studies as background to the romance of the characters played by Miss Sullavan and James Stewart.” – Montreal Gazette Nov 7, 2022 Full Review Cobra Woman (1944) 73% EDIT “The popular features of Flash Gordon, Robinson Crusoe and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs are dished out in Technicolor, and served with a generous gollop of sex appeal, in this latest of the Universal film fantasties.” – Montreal Gazette Sep 20, 2022 Full Review You Can't Take It With You (1938) 94% EDIT “Frank Capra must be the patron saint of all those who stand unshaken in their belief that the director is the really important figure in picture-making. Ever since It Happened One Night, Mr. Capra's star has been in the ascendant.” – Montreal Gazette Feb 7, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (1947) 87% EDIT “This time, Mr. Power seems to be really attempting to give something more. His usual detachment passes quite satisfactorily as the manifestation of an untouchable soul, as that look of a man who loves nobody.” – Montreal Gazette Dec 7, 2021 Full Review His Girl Friday (1940) 99% EDIT “Mr. Grant. Miss Russell and Mr. Bellamy present a combination hard to beat on the screen today. Miss Russell, if somebody in Hollywood is bright, should shortly be among the top-ranking stars in the business.” – Montreal Gazette Oct 14, 2021 Full Review Leave Her to Heaven (1945) 85% EDIT “[Director John M. Stahl's] belief in his story and the fascination at the picture's gorgeous backgrounds do more to hold the interest than does the acting.” – Montreal Gazette Sep 29, 2021 Full Review The Women (1939) 94% EDIT “For the most part, it is the picture's smaller type headliner, Rosalind Russell who contributes most to the general fun.” – Montreal Gazette May 24, 2021 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% EDIT “The best moments are supplied by the music of Arlen and Harburg, especially Miss Garland's singing of "Over the Rainbow."” – Montreal Gazette May 3, 2021 Full Review The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 98% EDIT “The result is something pretty neatly turned out, full of emotion for everybody and given very neat little touches to keep it alive for those who rear back from anything as universal as hokem.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 13, 2021 Full Review Rebecca (1940) 98% EDIT “Rebecca is a genuine treat Mr. Hitchcock knows how to keep us on the edge of our seats. He knows how to instill a sense of foreboding.” – Montreal Gazette Apr 12, 2021 Full Review Casablanca (1942) 99% EDIT “In the hands of this cast and the capable direction of Curtiz. the film remains absorbing throughout, where lesser players might have made it seems slow-moving. The picture lacks action, but never drama.” – Montreal Gazette Feb 10, 2021 Full Review
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