A fairly quiet month on Turner: war films around Memorial Day, Busby Berkeley films throughout, Fatty Arbuckle shorts, a tribute to Raoul Walsh. My recommendations are limited, mostly of films I have not recommended before. Please e-mail me if you have questions about any film in May
May 1: Otto Preminger's beautiful film noir Laura (1944)
May 4: John Huston's elegant The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
May 6: Andre de Toth's Western of betrayal Springfield Rifle (1952)
May 8: Mitch Leisen's No Man of Her Own (1950), based on a Cornell Woolrich novel
May 12: Josef von Sternberg's beautiful Shanghai Express (1932)
May 14: Nicholas Ray's gaudy Party Girl (1958)
May 15: Budd Boetticher's The Killer is Loose (1956)
May 17: Ernst Lubitsch's delightful The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
May 18: Raoul Walsh's corrosive White Heat (1949)
May 22: Joseph H. Lewis's dark My Name is Julia Ross (1945)
May 23: King Vidor's moving Bird of Paradise (1932)
May 29: John Ford's magnificent They Were Expendable (1945)
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