A pretty good month, though not many films that I like that I have not mentioned previously. As usual I recommend any and everything by John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh and, in August, Gregory LaCava and Preston Sturges.
On Aug. 1 is one of Sturges's best film, The Lady Eve (1941) and John Brahm's melodrama Let Us Live (1939).
On Aug. 2 is John Stahl's quirky Our Wife (1941) and Albert Lewin's mythopeic Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), with its beautiful color cinematography by Jack Cardiff
On Aug. 13 is Fritz Lang's Brechtian Hangmen Also Die (1943)
On Aug. 15 are two superb Westerns starring Rod Steiger: Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957) and Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dynamite (1972) with, of course, an Ennio Morricone score.
On the 19th is Buster Keaton's beautiful The General (1927)
On the 23rd there are several Rogers and Astaire musicals, my favorite of which is Follow the Fleet (1936) with songs by Irving Berlin
Vincente Minnelli's tense Some Came Running (1958) is on the 24th.
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