Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani

 

This was an ok Indian movie nothing extraordinary. However, the last thirty minutes are pretty bad. It's about a carefree guy who falls in love and has to convince the girl that the man she is about to marry isn't the one. 

Saajan

 

This was a good Bollywood movie. I've been watching movies with Madhuri Dixit lately. She was quite a beauty in the 1990s. This is a movie about the friendship between a cripple and a playboy (Salman Khan). The playboy's family took the cripple into their household when he was a kid. He feels he is obligated to his friend even agreeing to let Khan take the woman he loves. Dixit comes to realize the deception since the cripple is the poet that Khan claims himself to be. I like the speech that she gives them at the end, and it serves them right. Anyway, it was pretty good.

For the Defense

 This was a short precode running around 63 minutes. It concerns William Powell playing an attorney protecting his girlfriend from manslaughter. He ends up becoming a criminal himself when he tampers with the jury. This was all right. Kay Francis steals the few scenes she's in. 

City of Fear

 This was an ok noir. It's about a convict who grabs something radioactive instead of heroin and the police try to rush to save him and the city's life in time. It kept my interest throughout. I don't know why Leonard Maltin gave it a 1.5. I mean it wasn't Double Indemnity, but it had ideas I hadn't seen explored in a noir movie before. It's worth a watch.

I hate Luv Storys

 

This got a lot of hate on imdb. It doesn't really contribute anything new to Indian cinema, but I thought it was cute. It's about two crew members who work on a Bollywood set. The woman believes that she has the perfect relationships while the guy doesn't really believe in love. Eventually the woman realizes she has feelings for the guy and that her perfect relationship isn't so great. I thought the two leads were great. Sonam Kapoor definitely has a presence.  

Bathing Beauty

 

This was an ok Esther Williams movie. Esther is getting married to Red Skelton in the beginning of the movie when a woman wrongly accuses Skelton of already being her husband and the father of her children. Esther goes back to being a college swim teacher, but Skelton is determined to get her back. He becomes the only male student at the college. I wanted more from this movie. Someone really should have made a great movie with Esther Williams. Most of her movies are just passable. I just wish that someone would have put the same effort that was put into some of Judy Garland classic MGM musicals. If that happened Esther Williams may be better known today. 

Gun Fury

This was a standard western starring Rock Hudson. It would be completely forgettable except for the fact that the person who kidnaps Donna Reed is a total creep. He is played by Phil Carey and man he does a good job. Rock Hudson of course saves the day.