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Colvin McPherson

Colvin McPherson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 95% EDIT “Performances are exceptional. ” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 31, 2025 Full Review The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 84% EDIT “[The Mad Miss Manton] has some brisk dialogue and all in all, is a pretty fair mystery farce.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Apr 22, 2024 Full Review The Dark Angel (1935) 94% EDIT “The Dark Angel is again a swell show. ” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar 10, 2023 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “Moviegoers can put it down in their little notebooks right now that The Lady Eve is one of the most delightful pictures they will see in 1941. ” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 29, 2022 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “None of us will forget the fields of flowers such as not even natural California could furnish, the fantastic forest and the gentle animals who become Snow White's friends, the Jewel mine of shining cut gems in which the dwarfs are at work.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 21, 2022 Full Review The Maltese Falcon (1941) 99% EDIT “The picture achieves what hundreds of routine detective stories fail to achieve -- genuine mystery, suspense and drama.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 11, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “One short sentence can state a critical opinion on Frank Capra's new picture, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington... It is the year's best film and Frank Capra's best.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 8, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “A pleasure.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 7, 2022 Full Review The President's Mystery (1936) 80% EDIT “Far from being a partisan attack on a New Deal measure, [The President's Mystery] is a rather sensible drama about a millionaire lobbyist who gives up his evil ways and helps start the cooperative movement in this fair, or unfair, land of ours.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 25, 2022 Full Review The Life of Emile Zola (1937) 92% EDIT “As pure biography, The Life of Emile Zola is the most finely wrought, the most satisfying I have ever seen on the screen. ” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 96% EDIT “Its great drama has been diluted... Verse and line could be cited on many other complaints, but they would tend to obscure the fact that Mutiny on the Bounty is highly deserving. ” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul 27, 2022 Full Review How Green Was My Valley (1941) 93% EDIT “Now you're not a Welsh coal miner and I'm not either, and neither is that guy over there, but I daresay all of us will feel we have lived the experiences of How Green Was My Valley.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul 26, 2022 Full Review You Can't Take It With You (1938) 94% EDIT “You Can't Take It With You is a tumultuous success -- a whizzing, dazzling, noisy explosion of mirth that equals the accidental fireworks demonstration which is one of its main scenes.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 8, 2022 Full Review Mrs. Miniver (1942) 93% EDIT “It is truly one of the prouder movie efforts of all time, and it was contrived that way, intentionally, by a set of creators who know how to create.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jan 4, 2022 Full Review The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 72% EDIT “Its cast is skillfully selected. Although Powell does his tremendous task well, I am sure Luise Rainer as Anna Held will be as long remembered.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 1, 2021 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% EDIT “Judy Garland as Dorothy and Frank Morgan as the Wizard are the most favored players and do flawless work, but the delight of many persons will be Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 14, 2021 Full Review His Girl Friday (1940) 99% EDIT “Grant's role as the slick, conniving managing editor is ideal for him.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 14, 2021 Full Review The Philadelphia Story (1940) 100% EDIT “In its 112 minutes' running time, The Philadelphia Story offers brand-new ideas on the upper classes, brand-new laughs at the expense of everybody, delicately detailed characterizations, full of human warmth and reality, and superb direction.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jun 10, 2021 Full Review The Women (1939) 94% EDIT “The new film is one of the glossiest items of the year, fast comedy superbly cast and capably performed.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 25, 2021 Full Review Rebecca (1940) 98% EDIT “Fog, shipwreck, an insane man wandering the beach, water-soaked corpses, inquests, forbidden chambers and finally a destroying fire in a big English country house -- all these flesh-curling delights are to be found in Rebecca.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Apr 12, 2021 Full Review Citizen Kane (1941) 99% EDIT “This first screen effort of Orson Welles is of such vast difference to other pictures, in subject material, in treatment, in technique, in cast and in performance that the best advice perhaps is, "See what you think."” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar 2, 2021 Full Review Babes in Arms (1939) 90% EDIT “Babes in Arms, which was a Broadway hit before the movies took it over, has the material of a success even without Rooney's particular charades but the young comedian considerably improves the show.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 12, 2021 Full Review Casablanca (1942) 99% EDIT “Director Michael Curtiz, whose sureness and skill ere rarely to be questioned in any picture he handles, have given Casablanca an exotic atmosphere, a flow of action, surprises and punch to make it constantly interesting.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 10, 2021 Full Review Anne of Green Gables (1934) 83% EDIT “Casting generally has met with the happiest success.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 1, 2021 Full Review Chu Chin Chow (1934) 78% EDIT “It is a distinctly superior picture, by any a delight.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 1, 2021 Full Review
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