Alan Napier

Movies5 years ago
Across the Wide Missouri (MGM 1951, Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban)
Native-American relations with white settlers in early 19th century America provide the dramatic focus here. The time is 1829 and trapper Flint Mitchell heads into the...
Movies5 years ago
Hills of Home (MGM 1948, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp)
Angered by the eponymous Lassie’s fear of water which renders her an inefficient sheep dog, her irate owner RHYS WILLIAMS sells her to elderly Scottish country...
Movies5 years ago
Johnny Belinda (Warner 1948, Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres)
In Johnny Belinda a patient, compassionate doctor (Ayres) in a rural community teaches a deaf-mute girl (Wyman) to communicate. After the young lady is brutally raped...
Movies5 years ago
Three Strangers (Warner 1946, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre)
Three Strangers is a terrifically entertaining crime thriller about three lost souls who meet on the eve of the Chinese New Year. The group includes a...
Movies5 years ago
Macbeth (Republic 1948, Orson Welles, Roddy McDowall)
Orson Welles’s first screen adaptation of Shakespeare was shot on a Republic studios Western soundstage in three days. Even though it looks like a ’20s German...