Grade: D+
Synopsis: A Miami detective (Frank Sinatra) gets to the bottom of a case involving a blonde at the bottom of the ocean in this sequel to Tony Rome.
Lady in Cement is another adventure of Miami detective Tony Rome following his eponymous debut. It’s not a good film, but it’s not a glaringly awful one either. Lead Frank Sinatra maintains just enough interest in the proceeding to hold our attention, but not enough to make us actually care what’s happening. Still, Ole Blue Eyes’ charm goes a long way. MORE »
Posted 355 days ago in Movie Reviews and Frank Sinatra. No responses
Grade: B+
Synopsis: The interconnected stories of three soldiers (Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra) stationed at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
From Here to Eternity marked the beginning of Frank Sinatra’s comeback. Finally breaking free of the naïve, boy-next-door image that he’d been shackled with his entire film career, he gives a career-making performance as the fiery private Maggio, a turn that won him an Oscar and effectively revived his fading career. From his first scene, the sly charisma that would later become his trademark is apparent in his knowing grin toward Montgomery Clift. This is Sinatra the swinger, not Sinatra the bobby-soxer. MORE »
Posted 362 days ago in Movie Reviews and Frank Sinatra. No responses
Grade: D
Synopsis: A cranky priest (Spencer Tracy) and three convicts (Frank Sinatra, Bernie Hamilton, and Gregoire Aslan) race to rescue children from a leper colony threatened by an island volcano.
The Devil at 4 O’Clock is an overlong, miscast melodrama masquerading as an adventure film. Running a few minutes over two hours, the only real entertainment comes during the film’s final twenty minutes or so, and getting there can be a real journey. MORE »
Posted 364 days ago in Movie Reviews and Frank Sinatra. No responses
Grade: D-
Synopsis: A timid man from Boston (Frank Sinatra) travels west upon learning of his father’s death, only to discover he must assume his father’s secret identity as “The Kissing Bandit.”
The Kissing Bandit is so bad it’s almost funny. If it were only 10 minutes long, the ludicrous Technicolor costumes, lead Frank Sinatra’s casting as a Mexican, and the stilted acting would be a riot, but at 100 minutes, the film quickly devolves into a perverse standoff between your finger and the fast-forward button. MORE »
Posted 386 days ago in Movie Reviews and Frank Sinatra. No responses
Grade: D-
Synopsis: An ex-GI (Frank Sinatra), a janitor (Jimmy Durante), an English heir (Peter Lawford) and a schoolteacher (Kathryn Grayson) work to get a young boy a music scholarship.
Aside from the curiosity of seeing an early teaming of future Rat Packer’s Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford, there’s little reason to watch It Happened in Brooklyn. Unless you feel the need to torture yourself, that is. MORE »
Posted 392 days ago in Movie Reviews and Frank Sinatra. No responses
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