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Flight of the Navigator **** (1986, Joey Cramer, Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright, Sarah Jessica Parker, voice of Paul Reubens) – Classic Movie Review 10,974

Flight of the Navigator (1986) is notable as one of the first Hollywood films to use extensive CGI effects, and as one of the first to feature an entirely electronic score. Director Randal Kleiser’s 1986 […]

Mar, 01

Dancing Co-Ed ** (1939, Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 9825

Precocious Lana Turner, then MGM’s new teenage sensation, aged 18 and making the most of her first starring role, dances and studies her way to success as Patty Marlow, the ambitious dancing co-ed of the […]

May, 26

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp *** (1926, Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford, Edwards Davis) – Classic Movie Review 9012

Joan Crawford appears and Frank Capra helped to write director Harry Edwards’s 1926 silent comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp for star Harry Langdon, who plays the humble, lowly Harry Logan, who takes part in a $25,000 […]

Oct, 23

Ma and Pa Kettle *** (1949, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Esther Dale) – Classic Movie Review 7,235

Sweet character actors Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride get their chance for stardom in the 1949 American comedy film Ma and Pa Kettle when two of the characters from Betty MacDonald’s 1947 semi-fictional memoir book […]

Jun, 30

Made in Heaven *** (1952, David Tomlinson, Petula Clark, Sonja Ziemann, A E Matthews, Charles Victor, Sophie Stewart, Richard Wattis, Athene Seyler Alfie Bass, Dora Bryan, Ferdy Mayne, Moira Lister, Ronnie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7083

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s spry though obviously dated 1952 British Technicolor film Made in Heaven is an almost heavenly Fifties comedy about the annual contest in the historic English market town of Dunmow for married couples […]

May, 22

Urban Cowboy ***½ (1980, John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn) – Classic Movie Review 4675

Co-writer/ director James Bridges’s unfairly neglected 1980 drama ends up as a country music companion piece to Saturday Night Fever, made for discerning adults. It is a thoughtful, intelligent and entertaining vehicle for John Travolta […]

Nov, 20

Man’s Favorite Sport? *** (1964, Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy) – Classic Movie Review 3923

Despite the teasing, possibly sexy title, Man’s Favorite Sport turns out to be fishing – of course! – in producer-director Howard Hawks’s thin but likeable 1964 comedy. Rock Hudson stars as Roger Willoughby, a fishing tackle […]

Jul, 02

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