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Bloodhounds of Broadway *** (1952, Mitzi Gaynor, Scott Brady, Mitzi Green) – Classic Movie Review 10,789

Director Harmon Jones’s 1952 Technicolor musical film Bloodhounds of Broadway is based on a Damon Runyon story, which provides a good chance for Mitzi Gaynor as little orphan Emily Annie Stackerlee, a country girl who […]

Jan, 14

Little Miss Marker ** (1980, Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Sara Stimson, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9194

Writer-director Walter Bernstein’s 1980 comedy Little Miss Marker stars an even more grumpy than usual Walter Matthau as Sorrowful Jones, the bookie blessed with a little bundle of cute trouble, The Kid (Sara Stimson), left […]

Dec, 27

Love on the Dole **** (1941, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier, Geoffrey Hibbert, Frank Pettingell, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 7010

Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]

May, 06

Who’s Got the Action? * (1962, Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, John McGiver, Jack Albertson, Ned Glass) – Classic Movie Review 6718

Director Daniel Mann’s 1962 comedy stars Dean Martin as Steve Flood, a lawyer who is all too often to be found at the race track, and Lana Turner as his wife Melanie, resorting to devious […]

Feb, 21

The Invisible Wall ** (1947, Don Castle, Virginia Christine, Richard Gaines, Arthur Space) – Classic Movie Review 5625

Don Castle stars as Harry Lane, an innocent man with a gambling problem accused of a murder, in director Eugene Ford’s complex and fairly intriguing but only passable 1947 noir mystery thriller, with just a […]

Jun, 17

Saratoga *** (1937, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Una Merkel, Margaret Hamilton, Hattie McDaniel) – Classic Movie Review 4981

Director Jack Conway’s sad and troubled 1937 MGM movie Saratoga is tragically the last film of the young blonde bombshell Jean Harlow, and marks the last pairing of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in their […]

Feb, 18

The Asphalt Jungle ***** (1950, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Brad Dexter, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 1351

Co-writer/ director John Huston’s compulsively watchable, realistically staged classic 1950 film noir heist movie The Asphalt Jungle is a trail-blazing thriller with the criminal scam it focuses on invigoratingly portrayed as an inside tale from […]

Jun, 22

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