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My Friend Irma *** (1949, John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Marie Wilson, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 11,258

Director George Marshall’s 1949 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy My Friend Irma stars John Lund, Diana Lynn, Don DeFore, Marie Wilson, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. It marks the film dèbut of Martin and […]

Jun, 01

The Mandarin Mystery *½ (1936, Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 10,500

Director Ralph Staub’s 1936 Republic Pictures crime thriller The Mandarin Mystery stars Eddie Quillan, who takes over Donald Cook in The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) as an unconvincing Ellery Queen in a confused, unsatisfactory second […]

Nov, 04

Gambling House ** (1950, Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix) – Classic Movie Review 10,403

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s 1950 gangster film noir Gambling House is a rather strange and awkward mix of crime drama and social drama, and stars Victor Mature as Marc Fury, a foreign (Italian) gambler-cum-crook who faces […]

Oct, 12

Hallelujah I’m a Bum **** (1933, Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon) – Classic Movie Review 9603

‘BUCK UP! LOOK UP! CHEER UP!… SING!’ Director Lewis Milestone’s 1933 Hallelujah I’m a Bum had to be urgently retitled Hallelujah I’m a Tramp in the UK, where it was released in a version where […]

Apr, 06

The Purchase Price ** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 6723

‘She took another woman’s place on her wedding night..!’ Well, that does sound interesting, doesn’t it? Director William A Wellman 1932 pre-Code American drama is adapted from the novel The Mud Lark by Arthur Stringer, with a screenplay by Robert Lord, and stars Barbara […]

Feb, 22

The Young Lions *** (1958, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Maximilian Schell, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt) – Classic Movie Review 6087

Director Edward Dmytryk’s intelligent, thought-provoking 1958 war movie brings to the screen Irwin Shaw’s popular novel about the World War Two fates of two American soldiers – playboy entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), Jewish-American Noah Ackerman […]

Oct, 12

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