Stanley and Iris

Starring:Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Harley Cross, Jamey Sheridan, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Zohra Lampert, Loretta Devine, Julie Garfield, Karen Ludwig, Kathy Kinney, Laurel Lyle, Mary Testa, Katherine Cortez, Stephen Root, Eddie Jones, Fred J. Scollay, Dortha Duckworth, Jack Gill (II)
Director: Martin Ritt
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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The Paleface 1948
like father not like son
Full Of Fun
i thought it was something else...
Hope Hit

The Paleface
Starring: Bob Hope , Jane Russell , Robert Armstrong , Iris Adrian , and Bobby Watson
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
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ASIN: B00005UMF6
Release Date: 2002-03-05

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Bob Hope brings his own brand of laughing gas to the Wild West as a would-be "painless" dentist lassoed into marrying Jane Russell. She's a shapely outlaw turned undercover agent on the trail of some varmints selling guns to a hostile Indian tribe, and he's her unwitting cover. Hope cowers and cracks self-effacing jokes while bodies fall around him ("Brave men run in my family," he quips, then runs), but he's even funnier swaggering and sneering like a kid playing cowboy in a flamboyant costume apparently stolen from the Oklahoma! road show. The Paleface is one of his best films, and the unflappable Russell is a great match. Theme song "Buttons and Bows" (which Hope delivers with a clowning mock twang) won an Oscar ^®, and the 1948 film spawned a sequel (Son of Paleface, costarring Roy Rogers and Trigger) and a remake (The Shakiest Gun in the West with Don Knotts). --Sean Axmaker

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The Paleface 1948.......2006-04-19

The wild west has never been wilder or funnier , than in this classic six-shoting farce which introduced the Academy award winning song "Buttons and Bows" . Bob Hope (1903-2003) in one of his most populare roles , hi plays "Painless" Peter Potter , a timmid corrspondence school dentist earning a shaky living in the lawless West . When "Painless" seduced into agreeing t a quickie marriege by the voluptous Jane Russell (1921- ) , hi thinks his luck changed . Little does hi suspect that Russell is actually sharpshooter Calamity Jane (1848-1903) , hot on trail of dangerous renegade gang and that she simply using "Painless" as her cover and unwitting dupe . This old west burlesque , brightened by Tehnicolor and Uproarious slapstick went to become one of Bob Hopes best loved . Vehicles and his biggest box office hit .Saddle up for athe wild comic ride . Marvelous movie with many laughts . Super transfer in High Quality pictures . Recommended .

like father not like son.......2006-03-22

the Son Of Paleface and The Paleface differ like night and day

Full Of Fun.......2006-03-16

Its one of bob hopes best. The entire family can sit and have a good time watching this movie.
I highly recommend this movie for a day of fun & laughs

i thought it was something else..........2003-06-16

don't be tempted. hope was funny on his shows in a different format, where spontaneity was his forte. executing someone else's scripted directions and dialogue, he's average...wouldn't even make second string on the stooges.

pure junk.

Hope Hit.......2003-04-06

My favorite Bob Hope moment of all time comes from this film. Not his amazing facility with a gag or a prop but when he sings "Buttons and Bows" in an attempt to seduce Jane Russell. It's a great song and wonderfully done. Hope never got to work with the great directors for some reason so his work is often overlooked today, but shouldn't be. Otherwise he'd be recognized as the most influential American comic actor of the sound era.

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A Love Story about Literacy
An Important Subject with Two Stars Meandering Through a TV-Movie-Level Vehicle
Real Romance
LOW-KEY BUT DELIGHTFUL BLUE-COLLAR ROMANCE
DeNiro's finest work

Stanley & Iris
Starring: Jane Fonda , Robert De Niro , Swoosie Kurtz , Martha Plimpton , and Harley Cross
Director: Martin Ritt
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ASIN: B0000V4942
Release Date: 2004-01-13

Description

Man and woman. Student and teacher. Stanley and Iris. 'two great stars (Leonard Maltin)OscarÂ(r) winners* Jane Fonda and Robert De Nirolight up the screen in this bold, tender and quietly noble love story (The Hollywood Reporter) from the creators of Norma Rae. He's a shy, illiterate short-order cook who's never taken a chance at love. She's a newly widowedfactory worker who's vowed to never love again. But as their friendship slowly blossoms and Iris helps Stanley learn to read, his strong yet gentle kindness helps mend her broken heart. And where once two lonely strangers stood trapped within the past, Stanley and Iris can now begin a new chapter of their livestogether. *Fonda: Actress, Coming Home (1978); Actress, Klute (1971); De Niro: Actor, Raging Bull (1980); Supporting Actor, The Godfather, Part II-1974

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A Love Story about Literacy.......2006-07-25

Iris is a widow struggling to support her two children as well as her sister and terrible brother-in-law. Her life gets even worse when her daughter announces that she's pregnant. Iris has become friends with Stanley, a cook at her company's cafeteria. When it becomes obvious that Stanley cannot read he loses his job. Iris is determined to teach Stanley to read. The most touching scene in the film is when Stanley explains to Iris what it is like trying to hide the fact that he can't read. (I would like to show this clip when I'm giving talks about the need to support adult literacy programs.)
This film only received modest reviews when it was released, but I think it's a wonderful story about people struggling to maintain their family life against terrible obstacles.

An Important Subject with Two Stars Meandering Through a TV-Movie-Level Vehicle.......2006-04-17

As the last film directed by the redoubtable Martin Ritt, this 1990 drama is full of good intentions about adult illiteracy and has two proven star actors, Jane Fonda and Robert DeNiro, in the lead roles. Nonetheless, it rarely hovers above the level of a Lifetime TV-movie, as the story amounts to a series of episodes around the burgeoning relationship between Iris, a recently widowed worker in a pastry factory and Stanley, a quiet, illiterate cook who likes to invent mechanical contraptions in the privacy of his apartment. They meet when he is hired at the company cafeteria, but he loses his job when it becomes clear he cannot read or write. Realizing his illiteracy has prevented him from taking care of his ailing father, Stanley asks Iris to teach him. The rest is pretty inevitable, though there are affecting moments along the way mainly because DeNiro is able to convey the basic decency and veiled humiliation of his character.

What I do miss in DeNiro's performance is the edge of danger that makes him truly transcend his best roles like what he did right after this film as Jimmy Conway in Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas". Stanley seems to be a distant cousin of DeNiro's similarly passive and inarticulate character in Ulu Grosbard's 1984 "Falling in Love". In what was to be her last film for fifteen years, Jane Fonda seems woefully miscast, looking too intellectually alert and physically aerobicized to portray Iris with conviction. Begging for a Kathy Bates-type to inhabit her, Iris should be downcast about her life and feeling a deepening loneliness about her situation, but Fonda's off-screen resourcefulness makes it difficult to believe this woman would truly feel stuck. It also feels disingenuous of the character to talk about her weight concerns and wanting a couple of eclairs when we are looking at an actress who has made millions off her workout tapes.

Regardless, Ritt is a master when it comes to showing the trials of everyday people in working class settings, and there is genuine chemistry between the two actors, which helps considerably as the story meanders toward its conclusion. The rest of the cast is used inconsistently as plot devices, in particular, Swoosie Kurtz as Iris's battered sister, who oddly disappears midway through the story, and Martha Plimpton as Iris's sullen, impregnated daughter. I have to conclude the primary problem with the film is the episodic screenplay by Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch, both of whom have teamed with Ritt on a number of superior films like "Hud" and "Norma Rae". The 2004 DVD has no extras.

Real Romance.......2005-12-31

I'm not big into romance movies. However, this one is a solid winner worthy of your time spent watching it. Good story, solid acting, strength shown throughout. Enjoy!

LOW-KEY BUT DELIGHTFUL BLUE-COLLAR ROMANCE.......2005-10-13

Like your sentimental flicks fudge-free? Rent this one pronto, if only for the numbing serenity of a tamed De Niro and a button-down Jane Fonda. No big-budget romantic histrionics here. Neither of them particularly original in how they approach their characters: Fonda a plucky, quietly sensible working mother in the face of hardships, De Niro a man who works in a cafeteria kitchen and cleans lavatories. But originality is not really what's needed in this simple film about simple people and their loves beneath the stars. It is easy to see why films like this get glossed over come Oscar time, but it's unfair. All characters have their particular voices and seem refreshingly authentic. So, to a surprising degree, does the movie. Don't read too much of the plot, it should make for an excellent rental for a leisurely afternoon.

DeNiro's finest work.......2005-08-18

This is a very sweet, sadly overlooked gem of a movie. Robert DeNiro, in a sharp departure from his typical tough-guy role, plays the shy Stanley, who doesn't know how to read. He meets Iris, played by Jane Fonda (Hanoi Jane is not my favorite, but she is superb here) who teaches him reading as their friendship and love blossom.
It is refreshing to see a film about people instead of explosions and elves and monsters. I wonder why DeNiro didn't get an Oscar nod for this one.

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A sarcastic glance to movie business
Jerry Lewis delivers in this movie!
Typical Lewis, almost his best.
Some of his best
Errand Boy Gets the Job Done

The Errand Boy
Starring: Stanley Adams , Iris Adrian , Felicia Atkins , Pat Dahl , and Brian Donlevy
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B0002NY8UI
Release Date: 2004-10-12

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In THE ERRAND BOY, Morty is hired by Paramutual Pictures as a spy to find out where the company's money is being spent. Working in the mailroom, Morty has access to the production lot and discovers that wherever he goes, havoc ensues in his effort to provide his new boss, Mr. Sneak, with the information he has requested.

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A sarcastic glance to movie business.......2006-01-06

The third movie of Lewis as film director, also written ( in collaboration with Bill Richmond ) and performed by Lewis himself, follows the same scheme he invented for " The bellboy "; this is a comic film with the structure of a long cartoon and an almost inexistent but necessary plot ( Morty, an anonymous worker from Paramutual Pictures is hired by the major studio's moguls as spy to watch closely how the company's money is spent ), the basic support that allows Lewis to tack a collection of depurated and satirical sight-gags focused in an only stage: this time, in a very particular hell named Hollywood( the name of the movie studio where action takes place, Paramutual, is, of course, a deliberated sarcastic distorsion of Paramount Pictures ). " The errand boy " is a subversive ( still today )comic glance to movie industry where Lewis dismounts many secrets and lies of movie business. The film is plenty of delightful comic scenes like that one in which Morty ( Jerry Lewis ), sat in front of the table where the big boss manages the movie studio, develops a mocking caricature of the " big fishs " of film industry only with mimicry and the support of Count Basie's music.

Widescreen edition.

Jerry Lewis delivers in this movie!.......2005-09-19

When this movie came out in 1961, Jerry Lewis deliver a humorous look into what really happens in Hollywood. 44 years later it is still relevent today as it was then. Lots of surprises in this movie including the music of Count Basie in the classic boardroom scene with Lewis mouthing off to the music. I enjoyed Lewis' work in this movie!!

Typical Lewis, almost his best........2005-05-13

A typical Jerry Lewis movie. As with most of his, if you don't like Lewis you won't like the movie, but also as with most of his films, it's packed with funny comedy that's mostly timeless and often imitated.
The cast includes Brian Donlevy (Cowboy, The Quatermass Experiment, Beau Geste, etc.), Howard McNear (Floyd the barber on The Andy Griffith Show), and Joe Besser (The Three Stooges, The Abbott & Costello Show).
The plot's not; just a flimsy frame for Jerry's shenanigans, of which there's enough to fill 90 minutes with laughs, plus a couple cute scenes with puppets. Jerry's hired ostensibly as an errand boy for a movie studio, but actually to spy for the upper management. He get's into plenty of slapstick trouble on the job but never accomplishes any spying.
But the comedy is not all slapstick by any means; much of it is poking fun at movie directors and supervisors, and other screwball comedy. One of my favorite bits is when three kids are ordering candy where Jerry's filling in at the studio cafeteria, and they send him up the same high ladder 3 times for different orders from the same giant glass jar of jelly beans. There's also a great basketball scene with the Dover Basketeers. But wait, there's more, including a cameo appearance by the Cartwrights of Bonanza, Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts, and Dan Blocker.
My favorite Jerry Lewis movies are "The Delicate Delinquent," "Way... Way Out," (which doesn't seem to be available anywhere) and of course "The Nutty Professor" (nothing against Eddy Murphy, but he's no Jerry Lewis). I think The Errand Boy is almost as good as these.

Some of his best.......2004-10-24

I rank this #3 in my choice of favorites from him. The Count Basie music in his conference room bit is worth it alone. I see familiar faces in the movie including the guy who sold tribbels in Star Trek. Buy it. You won't regret it. It's a good spoof on how movies are made and some good b/w footage of early hollywood.

Errand Boy Gets the Job Done.......2004-10-17

I had never seen this particular Jerry Lewis film until it recently came to DVD and wasn't sure what to expect. What I saw was nearly 90 minutes of the most biting satire I have ever seen propogated against Hollywood and I love it! It is incredible to think that this motion picture was made in 1961, it is more relevant now in many aspects than it was then.

Not only does this film have some of Jerry's best comedy--some of it coming from other actors--but it also features some rather touching dramatic moments.

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Could rival Christie or Sayers

Murder at Glen Athol
Starring: John Miljan , Irene Ware , Iris Adrian , Noel Madison , and Oscar Apfel
Director: Frank R. Strayer
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ASIN: B00020X8Y8
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Could rival Christie or Sayers.......2006-01-06

Bill Holt (John Miljan) is a famous detective. He is on vacation and borrowing a house on Glen Athol. He is invited and practically forced to go to a party in the mansion next door. A wickedly flirtatious girl Muriel Randel (Iris Adrian) tells him of all the skeletons in everyone's closet. She seems to be some sort of scamp that uses everyone including the detective. It seems to be an early night as the detective goes home to finish a book he is writing. The scamp is exhausted and goes to bead early. All is well.

Bang! Bang! Shots heard. That night the butler mistakes a nephew (guest) of being a burglar and shoots him. Soon other bodies are found and the simple minded police pin it on the nephew. Our detective without overtly playing his hand must find out the truth.

Be sure to concentrate on the first 10 minute introduction of the characters or you will get lost in the shuffle.

Watching many detective movies it is not hard to guess the whole story as it is thinly masked and hurried at 69 minutes. However it is fun to watch the story unfold before our eyes and a rather refreshing but not unique conclusion.

The film has the feel that we are coming in in the middle of a series. However there is no reference to a book or any other movie either this character. The Writer of the screen play, John W. Krafft, has a string of credits to his name for many other movies and TV series.

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Classis East Side Kids move.
EAST SIDE KIDS TO THE RESCUE
One of the better Alpha presentations.
The East Side Kids help find the mugger.

East Side Kids - Million Dollar Kid
Starring: Leo Gorcey , Huntz Hall , Gabriel Dell , William 'Billy' Benedict , and Louise Currie
Director: Wallace Fox
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ASIN: B00007G1T7
Release Date: 2002-11-19

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Classis East Side Kids move........2005-12-11

This is in reference to the Alpha Video version.

This is a classic east side kid's move where the kids help out the poor little rich boy who gets himself in a jamb. If you like the East side kids, like I do, you'll like this movie. The DVD and sound quality are terrible. You can barely see the picture at some points and the sound is scratchy to say the least. It appears it was just copied from the old films. I guess you can't expect too much for the price. There is a re-mastered copy of this video by Digiview Productions so make sure you buy that version. I haven't seen it yet but it has to be better than this one.

EAST SIDE KIDS TO THE RESCUE.......2005-02-26

Here is another Monogram produced East Side Kids film that really ranks as one of their better efforts that while funny still mixes in some drama and action before the kids would become the "boys" and move to a more slapstick format in the 1950's. John Cortland is a wealthy man who is accosted by some street punks and then rescued by Muggs and the gang. Cortland is played by Herbert Heyes who is perhaps best known for playing Mr. Gimble in both the 1947 and 1955 TV versions of "A Miracle on 34th Street".

Cortland is grateful to the kids and invites them over to his home where he provides much needed athletic equipment to the boys. However the boys soon find out that it was Cortland's own son Roy that involved in trying to mug his father. Not wanting their benefactor to find out that his son has become a street hood the gang sets out to reform the young man.

Decent Kids film. Usual laughs mixed with drama. The only bad things is that Sammy Morrison, who played Scruno, had left the team and he was always one of the funniest of all the kids.

One of the better Alpha presentations........2005-02-24

This Alpha/Gotham DVD is one of their better presentations. The picture is fairly sharp, the contrast workable, and the sound is clear. There are some minor video glitches indicating tape wear in the master video tape, but for $7.99 it is well worth it. The film used to make the tape does have lines & splices, but I did not find them distracting.

The East Side Kids help find the mugger........2004-03-20

Cousin Herbie (Al Stone) joins the gang. Gabriel Dell and friends beat up a rich older man (Herbert Hayes). The East Side Kids come to his safety. Grateful, he gives them his business card to call him tomorrow. Huntz notices the rich man mistakenly left his wallet behind with nearly a thousand dollars inside. They truly decide to return it to the man. Suddenly, the police catch the boys with the dough and down to the station they go. They call the rich man, Cortland and it's all straightened out. He invites the boys to his home to help them with gymnasium equipment they need. With the help of the East Side Kids (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Stone, Billy Benedict, Dave Durrand, Jimmy Strand, Bob Gorman) and Cortland's son, Roy (Johnnie Duncan) they will catch Gabriel Dell the mugger. Bobby Stone was not credited, but I got him here. Leo Gorcey's father, Bernard Gorcey, makes an appearance as a telegram man. The next six films: Follow The Leader (1944), Block Busters (1944), Bowery Champs (1944), Docks of New York (1945), Mr. Muggs Rides Again (1945), Come Out Fighting (1945).

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PRETTY GOOD OLD DARK HOUSE STYLE MYSTERY
Passable Old Dark House Mystery...
Neat Little Edgar Wallace Thriller

Edgar Wallace's The Terror
Starring: Wilfrid Lawson , Bernard Lee , Arthur Wontner , Linden Travers , and Henry Oscar
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ASIN: B0000C8AUH
Release Date: 2003-10-21

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PRETTY GOOD OLD DARK HOUSE STYLE MYSTERY.......2005-05-21

While there isn't a great deal of plot in "The Terror" it makes up for in nice atmosphere and above average performances. It centers on three men who rob a gold shipment but then one of them betrays the other two allowing them to be caught by the police and sent to prison for years. When they are released from prison they set their sights on tracking the man down and trail him to an old monastery/mansion complete with all of the usual Old Dark House trappings including a creepy butler, ghosts, mysterious organ music and, of course, a murderer on the loose. A couple of things make this stand out, notably Bernard lee as Inspector Bradley. Lee would go on to play "M" in several james Bond Films. Also co-starring is Alastair Sim who would become legendary for his performance as Scrooge in the best version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in 1951. The performances and atmosphere help this one rise above many of its peers of the same period.

Passable Old Dark House Mystery..........2004-02-25

1939's "The Terror" is essentially a stagebound affair, but intriguing nonetheless.

Three men hold up a gold shipment, and the mysterious ringleader disappears with the swag while pointing the police at his two fellow crooks. Ten years later, the crooks are released from prison and swear revenge on their former boss, whom even the police think non-existant. Naturally, the crooks track down the bad guy, and everyone winds up at the haunted monastery-turned-mansion/hotel. The guests stopping at the hotel face ghosts, dark stormy nights, mysterious organ music, and murder.

"The Terror" is notable for two things; first, it has an early role for Bernard Lee, who later found lasting fame as "M" in the James Bond movies. It's fun to see him play a mystery man/drunk/hero in comparison to his more famous role. Second, we have a good turn by Alistair Sim as a supporting character, the the crook called "Soapy". Sim is poorly represented on DVD, although he was a simply phenominal actor. His lasting fame is the definitive portrayal of Ebeneezer Scrooge in the 1951 classic "A Christmas Carol", but he was also outstanding in "Hue and Cry" and "Green for Danger", both currently unavailable.

The movie is slightly a cut above the usual programmer, and there's a spot or two of comedy to help things along.

Neat Little Edgar Wallace Thriller.......2003-12-16

Not a bad little crime/old dark house thriller. This is a British movie made in 1939 and starring Bernard Lee who was to find cult status 21 years later as "M" is the James Bond movies. Two guys meet a mysterious third to perform the perfect gold heist. They never see his face because gas masks are used in the robbery. He ends up betraying his accomplices and vanishing without a trace. Ten years later, in a spooky old mansion their paths cross again. Typically, as with most Edgar Wallace stories, there is a stormy night, a spectral monk, creepy midnight organ music, a black-gloved killer on the loose... you get the picture. I don't want to ruin the plot because it's worth a look if only to see a young Bernard Lee along with Arthur (Sherlock Holmes) Wontner, and Alistair Sim strut their stuff. At 70 minutes, it's not much of a commitment. The el cheapo Alpha DVD is second rate VHS quality with substantial audio hiss. The print has little or no scratches and no splices but since it was mastered from a VHS tape there are some video dropouts. Not really what DVD is supposed to be about but hey, where else are ya gonna see this stuff for under 10 bucks?? Quality aside, at least it wont wear out when it's on disc.

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