Movie Night: The Thing from Another World.

Review #519: The Thing from Another World.

Cast
Margaret Sheridan (Nikki Nicholson), Kenneth Tobey (Captain Patrick Hendry), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Arthur Carrington), Douglas Spencer (Ned Scott), James Young (Lt. Eddie Dykes), Dewey Martin (Crew Chief Bob), Robert Nichols (Lt. Ken 'Mac' MacPherson), James Arness (The Thing), and William Self (Corporal Barnes) Directed by Christian Nyby.

Review
The movie (produced under Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation) shows promise and it lives up to it. The title sequence is excellent, because it has a certain interest in mind and intrigues you in. The actors do fine, and James Arness does impressive as the Thing's body (I do wonder how scary the movie would be with Thing from The Addams Family), and the movie itself doesn't have too many hokey moments, it has its moments of tension and suspense, such as the end sequence, and the last line is slightly chilling. The movie (I guess it's a cliche to remake movies over 40 years old I suppose) has been remade, one by John Carpenter in 1982, and the other in 2011, but this on its own is a decent movie.

Overall, I give it 8 out of 10 stars.

Movie Night: Mickey.

Review #435: Mickey.

Cast
Mabel Normand (Mickey), George Nichols (Joe Meadows), Wheeler Oakman (Herbert Thornhill), Minta Durfee (Elsie Drake), Laura La Varnie (Mrs. Geoffrey Drake), Lew Cody (Reggie Drake), and Tom Kennedy (Tom Rawlings) Directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young.

Review
Mickey is the earliest point of time in the 20th century to be reviewed here, over 90 years old, making it even older than say, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This silent film was produced by Mabel Normand Feature Film Company, which would only make one film, and this is a rare case of a film company bearing the name of the person involved and then starring in the film (unless you count "Wiseau Films" in the discussion) as well. The actors try to convey emotions, but only Normand seems to the most convincing at that, and she does a fine job overall. The film itself is not really that much to it, and why it can give a chuckle, the story doesn't have that much meat to it, and this is more of a curiosity piece that a good film, but I'm sure silent film lovers will get a treat out of this.

Overall, I give it 6 out of 10 stars.