Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . is the first line of THREE ON A MATCH, one of the final mass-audience American flicks NOT approved by the Vatican and its henchmen. Twelve-year-old Mary responds to her perceptive male admirer, "What do I care?" And why should Mary be concerned, since she's sporting conservative black panties? Mary's P.S. #62 class valedictorian, Vivian, on the other hand, titillates the playground boys by proudly proclaiming that HER unseen panties are pink! (Maybe Vivian's not-so-unmentionable undies predated Victoria's Secret, but the raunchy passage she later reads to her fancy prep school classmates smacks of FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY.) Though Vivian passes along her traveling genes BEFORE sowing her wild oats, by the time that she's forced to take a final dive from her tenement window to save her only son, it's Mary who's riding around in Vivian's 40-foot limo and performing the wifely duties for Bob Senior. As my parents said more than once, Straight A's aren't everything!

GManfred Didn't like this picture as much as I thought I would. It had a great cast of future and contemporary Hollywood stars, some who are not credited or listed in the credits. It was directed by Mervyn Leroy so there was no argument there.Maybe I just don't like soapers as much as other viewers. This one had some melodramatic moments, true, but it was too stagnant and the story line lacked energy. It is basically a woman's picture, a "chick-flick" as they like to say, and, speaking for myself, I have a hard time sitting through these. Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep specialize in this type of movie nowadays and they make lots of money, so I guess I'm out-voted. I almost forgot to mention that this picture belonged to Ann Dvorak and she was excellent. She added weight and substance to the picture which I felt needed some. She was especially effective at the climax of the picture.Always enjoy Joan Blondell, thought Ann Dvorak is very close to plain and didn't know Bette Davis was a thunder-thighs, as she appeared in a bathing suit towards the end of the picture.I would certainly recommend it to fans of the Golden Age of Hollywood and to those who would disagree with my jaundiced view of motion picture entertainment.

blanche-2 Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, and Bette Davis are "Three on a Match" in this 1932 precode film also starring Warren William, Humphrey Bogart, and Lyle Talbot. The story concerns three girls who grow up together - one, Vivian (Dvorak) is from a good family and marries a wealthy attorney (William); Mary (Blondell) ends up in reform school and goes into show business when she gets out; and Ruth (Davis) becomes a secretary. The three reconnect in adulthood, but the most successful one, Vivian, is bitterly unhappy. She eventually leaves her husband for a friend (Talbot) of Mary's and becomes a nympho drug addict. Ruth and Mary become concerned for her child and work with the boy's father to get him out of the bad situation.Heavy melodrama with a showy performance by Dvorak. Davis is unbelievably young and very pretty; she has hardly anything to do. Bogart is a thug whose boss is owed money by Talbot - he, too, has s small role. The film is almost like a history lesson - as each year goes by, we see sheet music for the popular song of the day and newspaper headlines.Short and entertaining, it's so interesting to see Bogart and Davis, who would end up on top 50 lists of greatest film stars in history, laboring away at these tiny parts. No one can say they didn't pay their dues.

zetes This probably mostly gets watched by Bette Davis or Humphrey Bogart completists. But, while Bette Davis is one of the titular three smokers, her role is relatively minor. Bogart plays the typical gangster he played so many times before The Maltese Falcon. The stars of this film are Ann Dvorak and Joan Blondell. The story is about former classmates who meet again as adults. Dvorak grew up a goody-two-shoes who was always secretly jealous of the more popular troublemaker Blondell. Blondell has had a bad life, been in a reform institution and hangs out with gangsters. Dvorak, on the other hand, went to college and is raising a son with her high-powered attorney husband. When the two meet again, Dvorak is still jealous of Blondell's exciting lifestyle. She's bored with her husband, and ends up leaving him. Blondell tries to save her by going to her husband, but that plans goes awry when the husband falls for Blondell. The two women basically exchange lives, and Dvorak goes through Hell. I have to admit, the main reason this movie is memorable is because of the gasp-inducing ending. It's just one of the most shocking things I've ever seen in a classic movie. The story is pretty good, and Dvorak in particular is excellent. The thing that hurts the film enormously, though, is that freakin' little brat who plays Dvorak's son. Kids in classic movies are so often terrible, but this one takes the cake. Since a lot of the plot is about how hurt one parent is because the child is with the other, it doesn't always work. You want to shove that kid's face in a blender.