Tag: luck
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Jinxed! ** (1982, Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 6786
Bette Midler’s 1982 black comedy Jinxed! was certainly jinxed. It was supposed to be a classy hit what with director Don Siegel, cinematographer Vlimos Zsigmond and writers Frank D Gilroy and David Newman – all top names. But it was made under difficult circumstances and they show in the messy movie up there on screen.…
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Bay of Angels [La baie des anges] **** (1963, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers) – Classic Movie Review 4304
The 31-year-old writer-director Jacques Demy’s excellent 1962 French New Wave movie is his second feature after his hit debut with Lola (1961). Bay of Angels boasts a spellbinding performance by a startlingly blonde Jeanne Moreau as Jackie Demaistre, an obsessive gambler who has an affair with a bank clerk called Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a winner at…
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Pocketful of Miracles *** (1961, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O’Connell, Peter Falk, Thomas Mitchell, Ann-Margret) – Classic Movie Review 2744
For his final movie Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, director Frank Capra remakes his 1933 hit Lady for a Day, this time casting Glenn Ford as superstitious bootlegger mobster Dave the Dude and Bette Davis as the fruit peddling street beggar Apple Annie, whom he and his girlfriend Queenie Martin (Hope Lange) try to transform into…
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Mulan **** (1998, voices of Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, B D Wong, Donny Osmond, Harvey Fierstein, June Foray, Marni Nixon, Pat Morita, James Hong, George Takei, Soon-Tek Oh) – Classic Movie Review 2219
Directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook’s likeable, intriguing and attractively different 1998 Walt Disney animated feature retells an old Chinese folk tale about the story of Mulan (voice of Ming-Na Wen), a young Chinese maiden who learns that her lame father is to be drafted into the army to fight the invading Huns. So, to save her father from death,…