Tag: Charles Laughton

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Cop and the Anthem’

NR | 16 min 55 sec | Drama, Comedy | 1952 In a rare on-camera appearance as narrator, John Steinbeck introduces the film, “The Cop and the Anthem,” one part of the five-part anthology film, “O. Henry’s Full House.” This adaptation of O. Henry’s light-hearted short story, directed by Henry Koster, comically ponders the double-edged nature…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Ruggles of Red Gap’

NR | 1 h 30 min | Comedy | 1935 If you’ve read P.G. Wodehouse’s side-splitting novels on the English valet Jeeves, you’ll appreciate the whiplash humor in “Ruggles of Red Gap.” If you haven’t, director Leo McCarey shows you what you’re missing. England’s early 20th-century Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young) loses his beloved valet,…