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Fools for Scandal * (1938, Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravet, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6755

Carole Lombard is uninspired in a rare flop movie for her. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1938 Warner Bros movie is an unexpectedly sad failure of a romantic comedy in which Fernand Gravey [Gravet] stars as a broke French […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

True Confession **** (1937, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 6,754

Great classic Thirties screwball comedy stuff, the 1937 film True Confession is vintage Carole Lombard, teamed again with Fred MacMurray. Director Wesley Ruggles’s extremely entertaining 1937 screwball comedy is Carole Lombard’s fourth movie with Fred […]

Mar, 01 · in Reviews

They Knew What They Wanted ** (1940, Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, William Gargan, Harry Carey Sr, Frank Fay, Karl Malden, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 6753

A 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sidney Howard, beautiful Carole Lombard and the great Charles Laughton come together and produce top director Garson Kanin’s interesting if less than awe-inspiring 1940 RKO Radio Pictures movie. Laughton plays […]

Mar, 01

Ferry to Hong Kong ** (1959, Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Spenser, Noel Purcell) – Classic Movie Review 6752

‘It was my nightmare film. It was a dreadful film, and everything was wrong with it, principally Welles.’ Hooray for Curt Jurgens [Curd Jürgens] and Orson Welles, who have a field day hamming it up as, […]

Feb, 28

The Adventurers * (1970, Bekim Fehmiu, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Aznavour) – Classic Movie Review 6751

‘The Adventurers was a disaster and I should never have made it.’ In 1967, Lewis Gilbert was chosen to direct Lionel Bart’s musical of Oliver!, but he was contracted to another project had to pull out. ‘I had to […]

Feb, 28

Stepping Out *** (1991, Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters, Bill Irwin) – Classic Movie Review 6750

Liza Minnelli and Julie Walters are the making of Lewis Gilbert’s 1991 musical comedy Stepping Out. Liza Minnelli steps out in director Lewis Gilbert’s old-fashioned, likeable and mildly enjoyable 1991 British musical comedy Stepping Out as […]

Feb, 28

Sink the Bismarck! *** (1960, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Karel Stepanek, Carl Mohner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Hordern, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 6749

Esteemed British master craftsman Lewis Gilbert made his name as a director in the Fifties and Sixties with a series of hit films, often based on true stories from the Second World War, such as […]

Feb, 28

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