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We’re No Angels *** (1955, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Leo G Carroll, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 3362

Director Michael Curtiz’s likeable but insubstantial 1955 Technicolor comedy, crime, romance movie We’re No Angels is cosy, kind-hearted, larkish entertainment, motoring almost entirely on its considerable star appeal. Humphrey Bogart plays Joseph, a prisoner who escapes at […]

Feb, 15

The Cabin in the Cotton *** (1932, Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan) – Classic Movie Review 2730

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1932 drama stars the young Bette Davis as the minx Southern belle Madge who comes near to ruining nice sharecropper Marvin (Richard Barthelmess), but not before she utters, ‘Ah’d laak to kiss […]

Jul, 22

The Egyptian * (1954, Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Peter Ustinov, Gene Tierney) – Classic Movie Review 2252

For this 1954 movie set in a before-Christ era 18th-dynasty Egypt, a wan-seeming Edmund Purdom replaced Marlon Brando as Sinuhe, a poor orphan boy who becomes a brilliant physician. And, accompanied by his friend Horemheb […]

Mar, 11

King Creole **** (1958, Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dean Jagger, Dolores Hart, Vic Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 2198

Just a couple or so of times, Elvis Presley had great film directors to work for and here he is in his third film, which is perhaps his best movie, working with the legendary Oscar-winning […]

Feb, 22

The Breaking Point **** (1950, John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez) – Classic Movie Review 1347

Director Michael Curtiz and the Warner Bros studio go for a much more faithful version of Ernest Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not in 1950 and cast it strongly and ideally with John Garfield, […]

Jun, 21

Angels with Dirty Faces ***** (1938, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall) – Classic Movie Review 295

Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]

Oct, 18

Casablanca ***** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, S Z Sakall, Dooley Wilson, Leonid Kinskey, Marcel Dalio, Madeleine Lebeau) – Classic Movie Review 1

You must remember this: arguably, the world’s best loved film and most perfect piece of cinema escapism. It didn’t look like it would amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world when Warner […]

Jun, 22

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