Ladies of the Jury

It's the standard jury movie, all of them say he's guilty but Edna May Oliver.  However, she's pretty charismatic and steals the show.  I need to watch more movies of her.  Eventually, the jury changes its mind.  The case is about a chorus girl who people think killed her rich husband.  An actor I like Guinn "Big Boy" Williams is uncredited in this movie which I think is unfair since he does have a good supporting role as a juror.  

The End of Summer

This is a late Ozu movie.  It had a quiet simplicity about it that I liked.  It's about a father and his daughters. The daughters are worried about his loneliness but they don't know that he's gone back to his old mistress. I liked the widowed daughter and her conclusion in the end.  It was unexpected and different.  She was my favorite character in the movie.  The costume design in this movie is nice.

Anand

This is rated the top Indian movie on imdb.com.  I thought it was good but not the best Indian movie I've seen. Amitabh Bachchan plays a doctor who meets Anand a patient who is going to die soon.  However, he is a huge optimist and even is so on his deathbed.  I know nothing about the actor Rajesh Khanna's work.  I'll have to investigate.

Julie

The lovely Lakshmi Narayan plays Julie.  This was just a decent 70's Indian movie.  The Netflix envelope made it sound more interesting than it was.  It described a Christian girl in love with a devout Hindu.  I wish.  That wasn't really explored.  In this, the girl gets pregnant bringing shame to her family.  She doesn't want to give up her baby.  At the end of the movie, she goes off with the wrong guy.  As far as I was concerned her friend cared more about her.

Murder by Contract

This was a neat noir.  I wasn't expecting much.  I figured I got a standard hitman movie.  However, the movie picks up when the hitman learns that his victim is a woman.  He gets nervous, demands double the salary. His attempts like electrifying the woman through her television are mishaps.  This was a surprise.  I liked it.  

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

This movie was pretty good.  It's about a rich girl who gets kidnapped and falls for one of her kidnappers.  It was later remade into the even better movie The Grissom Gang with Kim Darby.  Linden Travers is lovely here and does a good job as the heiress.  The endings are different in both versions although they are both incredibly sad.  

Gigolettes of Paris

This turned out to be a disappointing talkie.  Madge Bellamy stars here as a blonde.  She's not that good here and I loved her as a silent actress.  She plays a girl who wants to get back at the boyfriend who dumped her.  The print I watched was pretty bad and I usually don't care about that sort of thing.  There are better Madge Bellamy movies.