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Click (2005) - This summer's Adam Sandler high concept stupidity wastes an interesting premise with lame jokes and gobs of special effects. With a wildly veering tone down the stretch, it's more of a curiosity than most of the Sandler oeuvre but it still settles for sitcom-level yuks.
Grade: C

Behind Locked Doors (1946) - Budd Boetticher in the early days, making the most out of minimal sets and loads of shadows in this fast-paced journalist undercover behind bars quickie.
Grade: B+

Fire Down Below (1957) - RobertMitchum and Jack Lemmon are steamer tramps and pals who let mysterious beauty Rita Hayworth come between them. Three attractive leads can't do much with this colorful but stagnant melodrama. Maybe if they'd thrown in a treasure map or two... Mainly of interest to check out Jack vs. Bob (the latter might have the upper hand, no?)
Grade: C

Rafter Romance (1933) - Not bad little romantic comedy with Ginger Rogers and Norman Foster (later a director of stuff like Welles' Journey Into Fear) having to share an apartment on a time sharing basis. Guess what happens? No, it's not a murder/suicide.
Grade: B

The Old-Fashioned Way (1934) - W.C. Fields dates well, probably because hating dogs and kids never goes out of style. This early film of his is loose-plotted insanity of the finest kind, and it looked great on the big Academy screen. This has W.C. as "The Great McGonigle" an olde tyme hustler and ne-er do well. There's also a nifty dialogue on display, including a reference to the earlier Fields short, "A Fatal Glass of Beer": "It ain't a fit night out for man or beast!"
Pre-film, the panel of ancient child stars wandered a bit, but you couldn't begrudge them the spotlight.
Also, the man could juggle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZWq14uD-A

Grade: A

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2007/07.04.20.html

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