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Raw Wind in Eden ** (1958, Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler, Carlos Thompson, Rossana Podestà, Eduardo De Filippo, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 12,263

Director Richard Wilson’s 1958 American Universal Pictures widescreen Mediterranean Seas romantic adventure film Raw Wind in Eden stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler, Carlos Thompson, Rossana Podestà, Eduardo De Filippo and Rik Battaglia. It is shot […]

Aug, 01

Captain Blackjack [Black Jack] * (1950, George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 12,218

Co-writer/ producer/ director Julien Duvivier’s murky and muddled 1950 adventure film Captain Blackjack [Black Jack] tells a tale of hidden identities, smuggling and the cops along the Spanish coast, Unfortunately it is an unworthy vehicle […]

Jul, 05

Catch-22 **** (Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 7941

Buck Henry’s screenplay to bring to the screen the complex Joseph Heller satirical novel Catch-22 about the absurdities of life in an American wartime Air Force camp is not perfect. But it is intelligent, dark […]

Dec, 23

His Excellency ** (1952, Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Susan Stephen, Edward Chapman, Robin Bailey, Clive Morton, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 7752

The 1951 film comedy His Excellency is based on a London stage comedy by Dorothy Christie and Campbell Christie, in which a British socialist government sends dockers’ trade union supporter George Harrison (Eric Portman) to rule […]

Nov, 04

Kiss and Make-Up *** (1934, Cary Grant, Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin, Edward Everett Horton) – Classic Movie Review 7348

Director Harlan Thompson’s minor 1934 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy stars Cary Grant as Dr Maurice Lamar, a Paris beautician (!) who marries divorcée customer Eve Caron (Genevieve Tobin). But all about Eve is that […]

Jul, 26

Laissez bronzer les cadavres [Let the Corpses Tan] * (2017, Elina Löwensohn, Marc Barbé, Bernie Bonvoisin, Dorylia Calmel) – Movie Review 

I don’t suppose you would expect subtlety, laughs or a nice, gentle time from a movie called Let the Corpses Tan. Well, you are certainly not going to get any of that kind of stuff. […]

Sep, 19

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