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STHT: RONALD REAGAN AS WE REMEMBER HIM
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STHT: SPECIAL EDITION: RONALD REAGAN: HOW WE REMEMBER HIM.
Ronald Reagan 1911- 2004
Since Ronald Reagan is dead we thought we would explore films you can watch while you give your “Ronald Reagan is Dead Party”.
1. “Dark Victory” (1938) Warner Bros. One of Reagan’s earliest film appearances as one of Bette Davis’ youthful boyfriends in this tear jerker classic.
2. “Santa Fe Trail” (1940) Warner Bros. Western in which Reagan co-starred with Errol Flynn is pretty good despite Ronnie’s one note acting.
3. “ King’s Row” (1941) Warner Bros. Reagan is good in this dark story where his legs are removed and he utters the ultimate Ronald Reagan line “WHERE’S THE REST OF ME?”.
4. “Knute Rockne, All American” (1943) Warner Bros. “Win one for the Gipper” said Reagan playing George Gipp, a fabled football coach in this, otherwise, forgettable drivel.
5. “The Hasty Heart” (1949) Warner Bros. Solid stage adaptation of World War II romance between nurse and patient in army hospital in Burma co starred Reagan with Patricia Neal.
6. “Storm Warning” (1951) Warner Bros. One of a kind Noir story takes place in the dark shadows of night in an average American small town. A story of the Klu Klux Klan and political corruption co stars Reagan with Doris Day and is worth a look.
7. “Hong Kong” (1952) Universal. Reagan’s career was going nowhere when Warner Bros. dropped him. This is his first film with Universal (released second), a cheap backlot potboiler that deals with CIA like spies and intrigue.
8. “Bedtime For Bonzo” (1951) Universal. My second favorite Reagan picture teams him with a monkey in a wacky comedy that was fun to watch while he was President.
9. “Hellcats Of The Navy” (1957) Universal. Ron and Nancy co star in this crappy World War II pot boiler that served the public well, as Nancy retired from the silver screen and married the Gipper, setting the scene for one of the worst political debacles of modern times.
10. “The Killers” (1964) Universal. Two years before he became Governor of California Reagan said goodbye to the silver screen in this adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway short story and is my favorite Reagan picture. For the first and only time he plays a bad guy, a mobster, who kills people and slaps Angie Dickinson around. The movie was made as the first TV movie ever but was deemed to violent and released to theatres. Watch Reagan with John Cassavetes and Lee Marvin plot murders and robberies and see it in a beautiful DVD double disc set from Criterion with the original “Killers” (a far superior film with Burt Lancaster).
STIS!!
Ronald Reagan 1911- 2004
Since Ronald Reagan is dead we thought we would explore films you can watch while you give your “Ronald Reagan is Dead Party”.
1. “Dark Victory” (1938) Warner Bros. One of Reagan’s earliest film appearances as one of Bette Davis’ youthful boyfriends in this tear jerker classic.
2. “Santa Fe Trail” (1940) Warner Bros. Western in which Reagan co-starred with Errol Flynn is pretty good despite Ronnie’s one note acting.
3. “ King’s Row” (1941) Warner Bros. Reagan is good in this dark story where his legs are removed and he utters the ultimate Ronald Reagan line “WHERE’S THE REST OF ME?”.
4. “Knute Rockne, All American” (1943) Warner Bros. “Win one for the Gipper” said Reagan playing George Gipp, a fabled football coach in this, otherwise, forgettable drivel.
5. “The Hasty Heart” (1949) Warner Bros. Solid stage adaptation of World War II romance between nurse and patient in army hospital in Burma co starred Reagan with Patricia Neal.
6. “Storm Warning” (1951) Warner Bros. One of a kind Noir story takes place in the dark shadows of night in an average American small town. A story of the Klu Klux Klan and political corruption co stars Reagan with Doris Day and is worth a look.
7. “Hong Kong” (1952) Universal. Reagan’s career was going nowhere when Warner Bros. dropped him. This is his first film with Universal (released second), a cheap backlot potboiler that deals with CIA like spies and intrigue.
8. “Bedtime For Bonzo” (1951) Universal. My second favorite Reagan picture teams him with a monkey in a wacky comedy that was fun to watch while he was President.
9. “Hellcats Of The Navy” (1957) Universal. Ron and Nancy co star in this crappy World War II pot boiler that served the public well, as Nancy retired from the silver screen and married the Gipper, setting the scene for one of the worst political debacles of modern times.
10. “The Killers” (1964) Universal. Two years before he became Governor of California Reagan said goodbye to the silver screen in this adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway short story and is my favorite Reagan picture. For the first and only time he plays a bad guy, a mobster, who kills people and slaps Angie Dickinson around. The movie was made as the first TV movie ever but was deemed to violent and released to theatres. Watch Reagan with John Cassavetes and Lee Marvin plot murders and robberies and see it in a beautiful DVD double disc set from Criterion with the original “Killers” (a far superior film with Burt Lancaster).
STIS!!
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