Harry MacArthur
Harry MacArthur's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Washington Star
Movies reviews only
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) |
The Sullavan touch and the Stewart touch mean quite as much to The Shop Around the Corner as the "Lubitsch touch." - Washington Star
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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House on Haunted Hill (1959) |
People who go to the movies to be scared to death ought to find to fault with this one. - Washington Star
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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The Thing (1951) |
The players, headed by Kenneth Tobey, as the Air Force pilot who gets into more trouble than most, and Margaret Sheridan are uniformly good and Director Christian Nyby proves himself an adept man at building suspense. - Washington Star
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| Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Redes (1936) |
The story, [Paul] Strand's camera work and the musical score by Sylvestre Revueltas has been blended together to lend a poetic flow to the force of the drama of the photoplay. - Washington Star
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| Posted Aug 25, 2021
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The Littlest Outlaw (1955) |
Director Gavaldon has managed to linger over a picture here and there that doesn't do much to advance the action, too, without noticably damaging his picture's pace. This is a good trick if you can do it and Mr. Gavaldon obviously can. - Washington Star
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| Posted Aug 23, 2021
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The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
The Philadelphia Story may be Katherine Hepburn's picture, but she has to fight for it. She probably is hardest put, it may or may not surprise you to know, by Miss Weidler, a lass who can bandy a fast quip with the best of them. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jun 10, 2021
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Outrage (1950) |
Ida Lupino, who directed Outrage for Producer Collier Young, has a great liking for the frank, blunt look at subjects which Hollywood has hitherto ignored. - Washington Star
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| Posted Dec 15, 2020
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Son of Frankenstein (1939) |
Guaranteed to scare you. - Washington Star
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| Posted Oct 14, 2020
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Dead of Night (1945) |
This is a masterful bit of work on the part of all the several directors and screen writers involved in it. It is the sort of thing that can chill you and give you a wondrous bit of fun at the same time. - Washington Star
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| Posted Oct 13, 2020
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Gilda (1946) |
It has been a long time since so many handsomely dressed people became involved in so unpolished a romance for the delight of those who go to the movies. - Washington Star
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| Posted Aug 26, 2020
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Streets of Laredo (1949) |
[Streets of Laredo] probably seems duller than others which achieve no more because it is such an everlastingly talky affair, the talk being couched in some of the most painful colloquial terms in months, ah reckon. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jun 12, 2020
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Hearts Divided (1936) |
The ending does not affect the three reasons for seeing the film. These reasons are named Charlie Ruggles, Arthur Treacher and Edward Everett Horton. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jun 10, 2020
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The Bride Walks Out (1936) |
Despite a somewhat far-fetched and illogical story, despite the fact the tale creaks in a couple of its joints and becomes talky at times...The Bride Walks Out Is a more than moderately amusing screen entertainment. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jun 10, 2020
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Dear Brat (1951) |
There is nothing wrong with this as the premise for a movie farce, but nothing much comes of it here. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jun 10, 2020
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Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1943) |
[Eisenstein] can set a mood with a shadow. And he stages every scene that the cameras catch with a painstaking care for the smallest detail of composition. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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I Want a Divorce (1940) |
Frank Butler, who wrote the screenplay, and Director Ralph Murphy have managed to contrive a neat and not a bit gaudy motion picture, in which people behave. strangely enough, just as such people might behave. - Washington Star
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| Posted Apr 27, 2020
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The Plainsman (1936) |
The story of "Wild Bill" Hickok is a vigorous and red-blooded entertainment from beginning to end. - Washington Star
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| Posted Apr 22, 2020
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Anything Goes (1936) |
Not so uproariously funny as it was on the stage, the celluloid edition of Anything Goes still is exceedingly diverting. - Washington Star
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| Posted Apr 22, 2020
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To Each His Own (1946) |
Admirers of Olivia De Havilland should be highly gratified with the results of her excursion into the deeply dramatic in To Each His Own. - Washington Star
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| Posted Apr 21, 2020
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Winchester '73 (1950) |
It's a lively Western with some humor, lots of action and few noticeably dull moments. - Washington Star
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| Posted Apr 15, 2020
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Remember the Night (1940) |
[Director Mitchell Leisen and Script Writer Preston Sturges] have, with the help of a pair of top-notch performances by Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, given us a fresh and completely engaging yarn. - Washington Star
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| Posted Apr 03, 2020
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) |
This is truly a somber, moody and eerie piece and you get bored with the mood in half an hour, when Lewin has barely got up steam for the long pull. He seems to relish it, though, and plunges ahead unrelentingly. - Washington Star
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| Posted Feb 21, 2020
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The Racket (1951) |
Director John Cromwell keeps crackling along at a fast and noisy clip. - Washington Star
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| Posted Feb 06, 2020
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The Invisible Man Returns (1940) |
The Invisible Man Returns is at its best when it is not occupying itself with something it would like you to take seriously. - Washington Star
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| Posted Feb 06, 2020
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Rebecca (1940) |
It is a motion picture which grasps you to it from the first moment. - Washington Star
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| Posted Feb 05, 2020
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Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) |
Getting Gertie's Garter is another product of that school of cinema thinking which holds that a bludgeon is more effective than a rapier. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jan 27, 2020
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Gentleman's Agreement (1947) |
It is brave in having something to say about a problem of living today and it is outspoken in the saying of it. It has been directed with rare understanding by Elia Kazan. - Washington Star
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| Posted Jan 23, 2020
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The Big Sleep (1946) |
For all the untidiness of its plot, The Big Sleep is, however, an enjoyable melodrama, exciting most of the time and comic when it chooses to be. - Washington Star
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| Posted Oct 22, 2019
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Conspirator (1949) |
Maybe no one could make this dialogue sound like anything but a drama school student saying "How now, brown cow" for the first time. - Washington Star
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| Posted Oct 18, 2019
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Rashomon (1950) |
[Kurosawa] has made it an intriguing picture, occasionally an exciting one. He accents a lot of his dramatic effect, it might be noted, with the throbbing of an increasing taut, Ravel-like bolero. - Washington Star
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| Posted Oct 16, 2019
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Cloak and Dagger (1946) |
Cloak and Dagger has its sharp, melodramatic moments high with excitement and its sequences so taut with suspense that the more susceptible types will be suffering from shattered nerves before the thing is done. - Washington Star
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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The Stranger (1946) |
[Welles] has performed a leading role sensibly and directed the whole in a manner which proves he is the master of a number of effective cinematic tricks. - Washington Star
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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Black Bart (1948) |
By not taking itself, or anything else, too seriously the picture has become a modestly amusing tale of cops and robbers in the old west. - Washington Star
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| Posted Sep 04, 2019
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Moontide (1942) |
The story which has been chosen as M. Gabin's vehicle for his Hollywood debut really is one well-suited to his talents, though some of his past admirers may find it a bit too prettily romantic for a veteran of the brooding French tragedy. - Washington Star
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| Posted Aug 13, 2019
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Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) |
After all, there is one thing that can be said about Tarzan's New York Adventure and never let it be said that we failed to give praise where it was due. The picture is the story of an adventure Tarzan has in New York. - Washington Star
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| Posted Aug 09, 2019
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Man Hunt (1941) |
You shouldn't be at all surprised to find your knuckles gnawed down a joint or two by the time Mr. Lang arrives at his climax - Washington Star
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| Posted Aug 09, 2019
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Lone Star (1952) |
The mark of the formula is on Lone Star all right, but it's a good formula for Gable and Director Sherman has made it a slick and fast-moving movie. - Washington Star
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| Posted Aug 09, 2019
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