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Putting Pants on Philip *** (1927, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sam Lufkin, Harvey Clark, Lee Phelps, Jack Hill, Chester A Bachman) – Classic Movie Review 7401

Director Clyde A Bruckman and producer Hal Roach’s 1927 Putting Pants on Philip is a swish Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy silent 20-minute two-reeler short film, in which Ollie (as the pompous J Piedmont Mumblethunder) has […]

Aug, 05

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

Uncle Buck *** (1989, John Candy, Macaulay Culkin, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Madigan) – Classic Movie Review 5772

Writer-director John Hughes’s 1989 comedy stars chubby John Candy as the amiable bachelor slob of the title, who is called in as a last resort to look after his sister-in-law Cindy (Elaine Bromka)’s three sharp-as-knives […]

Jul, 16

Manchester by the Sea **** (2016, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Broderick, C J Wilson) – Movie Review

Casey Affleck is outstanding as Lee Chandler, a New England uncle who is legally supposed to take care of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick ‘Patti’ (Lucas Hedges) when the boy’s father (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly and makes him guardian in […]

Oct, 07

Auntie Mame ** (1958, Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4088

Producer-director Morton DaCosta’s 1958 Warner Bros comedy drama Auntie Mame is the musical Mame without the music, in which an unconventional, free-thinking socialite aunt adopts an orphan in the inter-war years when her brother dies. Based on […]

Jul, 27

Casino Royale *** (1967, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress, John Huston, William Holden, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 839

The original 1967 Casino Royale movie is a huge-scale, vastly costly James Bond spoof, starring David Niven as British secret agent Sir James Bond, who is called out of retirement after the death of M […]

Feb, 18

Scrooge *** (1970, Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More) – Classic Movie Review 557

‘What the Dickens have they done to Scrooge?… They’ve put him in a big, big musical.’ Well that was risky advertising, huh? Director Ronald Neame’s 1970 movie is quite a jolly musical version of A […]

Dec, 21

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