The new films this month are three pre-code films: John Cromwell's Silver Cord (1933), Phil Goldstone's Son of Nora Moreau (1933) and Lambert Hillyer's Once to Every Woman (1934) on May 3. I have not seen these films but pre-code films are always interesting, for what they get away with if for no other reason. Other quality films include the following:
May 2: John Ford's beautiful Western My Darling Clementine (1946) and Otto Preminger's intense film noir Fallen Angel (1945).
May 5: John Ford's masterful The Searchers (1956) and Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress, with Marlene Dietrich (1934).
May 8: Raoul Walsh's The Man I Love (1947).
May 9: Billy Wilder's cynical and corrosive Ace in the Hole (1951)
May 10: King Vidor's Stella Dallas, a class-conscious soap opera (1937) and Buster Keaton's funny and inventive Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
May 13: three violent and socially-conscious films by Samuel Fuller: Crimson Kimono (1959), House of Bamboo (1955), The Steel Helmet (1951)
May 15: Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959).
May 16: Jacques Tourneur's great film noir Out of the Past (1947),and Buster Keaton's impressive The General (1924).
May 17: Mark Sandrich's exquisite Shall We Dance, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, music by George Gershwin (1937).
May 19: Michael Powell's marvelous The Red Shoes (1948)
May 23: John Ford's Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
May 26: Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Michael Powell's moving I Know Where I'm Going (1945)
May 27: John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959)
May 28: two by Fritz Lang, Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945).
May 29: Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953)
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