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The Gay Falcon **** (1941, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Anne Hunter, Gladys Cooper, Edward Brophy, Turhan Bey, Arthur Shields) – Classic Movie Review 2956

Michael Arlen’s suave, debonair detective The Falcon featured in 16 above-average B-movies in the 1940s. George Sanders played the character in four movies until his brother Tom Conway took over. John Calvert starred in the […]

Oct, 05

The Pirate **** (1948, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 2510

Director Vincente Minnelli’s sophisticated and colourful 1948 Technicolor musical is lots of fun and a real charmer. It’s a sparkling showcase for the splendid team of Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, in the second of […]

May, 23

The Black Cat ***½ (1941, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2505

Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and Bela Lugosi raise the hairs on the back of the neck in the spooky and amusing 1941 comedy-mystery horror movie The Black Cat. Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi and […]

May, 20

Mr Lucky *** (1943, Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2341

The 1943 comedy film Mr Lucky stars Cary Grant, who is not terribly lucky with the script here, but he takes everything this movie throws at him in his stride.  ‘You call that purling? You […]

Mar, 31

Now, Voyager ***** (1942, Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 636

Double Oscar-winner Bette Davis stars in one of her most famous roles as plain, over-weight Boston spinster Charlotte Vale, repressed and dominated by her wealthy mother Mrs Henry Vale (Gladys Cooper). Paying the proverbial ugly […]

Jan, 06

My Fair Lady ***** (1964, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Mona Washbourne, Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde White, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Isobel Elsom) – Classic Movie Review 127

Re-creating his London and Broadway stage role, Rex Harrison triumphs again on screen in the part he was born for, the imperious, misogynistic Professor Henry Higgins, in this magnificent evergreen musical version of Pygmalion by […]

Aug, 04

Rebecca ***** (1940, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 72

Based on Daphne du Maurier’s famed novel, Hitchcock’s atypical romantic melodrama from 1940 is the middle film of a trio Hitch adapted from the author’s work between Jamaica Inn and The Birds. It spins the […]

Jul, 20

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