A pretty good month of solid examples of the classical cinema, with lots of John Ford and Bette Davis:
On the 2nd is John Ford's The Searchers, 1956, and Alexander Mackendrick's corrosive The Sweet Smell of Success , also 1956.
On the 5th is James Whale's moving film Waterloo Bridge, 1931, its pre-Code grittiness much preferable to Mervyn LeRoy's 1940 version.
On the 6th is John Ford' The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 and F.W. Murnau's exquisite Sunrise,1927.
On the 8th is Raoul Walsh's superb Western They Died with Their Boots On, 1941.
On the 9th is Roberto Rossellini's marvelous Journey to Italy, 1954
On the 11th is King Vidor's intensive The Big Parade, 1927
On the 13th are two of Michael Powell's loveliest uses of color, Black Narcissus, 1947, and The Red Shoes, 1948
On the 16th is John Ford's colorful and moving Drums Along the Mohawk, 1939
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