Mr Dynamite 1935

 Starring: Edmund Lowe

An unconventional private detective outsmarts the police.

Very old, actors shout at each other and talk at 100mph, attempted wisecracks every 30 seconds fall flat. I lost interest very quickly, thankfully short.    2/10

Valentino 1951

 

Starring: Anthony Dexter

An Italian immigrant to the US becomes a World-famous romantic film star but dies young.

In Wikipedia, Charlie Chaplin described Valentino as the shy, introverted friend. Valentino is not depicted like this in this movie, rather as a cad and womaniser that makes him difficult to like. More of a love story, a kind of half-biopic, interesting none the less.  5/10

Man Of Flowers 1983

 

Starring:  Norman Kaye

A model's relationship with her lover, a blackmailing, cocaine-snorting artist, and her admirer, a wealthy, repressed, middle-aged aesthete, leads to violence.

There's a line in a Monty Python sketch that goes "I may not know much about art, but I know what I like". It seemed like this movie was made to shock, nudity a plenty, a lesbian scene, all accompanied by an operatic score. I found it to be pretentious and boring.    2/10

Bombers Moon 1943

 

An American pilot crash-lands into Germany and makes for the coast.

Editing is a little clumsy, woman being mistaken as a boy is laughable but there are some decent scenes throughout with well built tension.   6/10

Saludos Amigos 1943

 

Donald Duck has various South American adventures with a parrot namedJoe Carioca

Slightly misleading, I think Donald was only in two scenes. Semi-documentary, most interesting to see clips of people going about their lives in years gone by. Did make me laugh a couple of times, just a bit of an odd movie and very short.    5/10

Those Were The Days 1940

 

Starring: William Holden

During their 40th anniversary celebrations, a married couple look back to their courtship days at college.

Set around the fraternity scene at Knox College, everything that the students got up to seems so tame, not a patch on the outrageous 'Animal House' but had occasional moments.   4/10

Internes Can't Take Money 1937

 

Starring: Joel McCrea

A hospital doctor persuades a gangster friend to help a woman find her missing child.

The screen debut of Dr Kildare and he comes into the company of Barbara Stanwyck. Kildare is a bit like Macgyver and uses everything around him to aid in operations. Movie can't quite make up its mind whether it's a medical drama or a crime drama but the ending is beautifully done.    6/10