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My Friend Irma *** (1949, John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Marie Wilson, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 11,258

Director George Marshall’s 1949 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy My Friend Irma stars John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Marie Wilson, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. It marks the film dèbut of Martin and […]

Jun, 01

Bundle of Joy ** (1956, Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Adolphe Menjou, Tommy Noonan) – Classic Movie Review 10,578

‘Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds. Their first movie together!’ Director Norman Taurog’s 1956 Technicolor RKO-Scope film Bundle of Joy is a musical reworking for Ginger Rogers’s 1939 comedy Bachelor Mother, with Debbie Reynolds playing the shop […]

Nov, 22

Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] ** (1969, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Lionel Stander, Woody Strode, Victor Buono, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 9730

Writer-director Giuseppe Colizzi’s violent 1969 Spaghetti Western film Boot Hill [La Collina degli Stivali] has too much broad, off-target comedy and offers yet another popular, if easily resistible pairing of Terence Hill (as Cat Stevens!) […]

May, 07

Early to Bed *** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 9438

‘9:00 am to 10:00 am. That important hour when financial kings of American affairs open their mail.’ Director Emmett J Flynn’s 1928 two-reeler black and white silent comedy short Early to Bed is the first […]

Feb, 28

Weekend at Bernie’s *** (1989, Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9285

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 Weekend at Bernie’s is a spirited, even memorable try at that notoriously difficult genre – black comedy – in which New York insurance yuppies Larry Wilson and Richard Parker (Andrew McCarthy […]

Jan, 20

Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] *** (1981, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 8884

Michel Piccoli won the Silver Bear in Berlin for Best Actor in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s nimbly acted, craftily written 1981 French social satire drama Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] in 1982 and Natalie Baye […]

Sep, 08

Nothing But the Best **** (1964, Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin) – Classic Movie Review 5945

Director Clive Donner’s amusing and deliciously cynical 1964 satirical dark comedy runs along the lines of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, though it is based on the short story The Best of […]

Aug, 20

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