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The Last Hurrah **** (1958, Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 3388

Director John Ford’s well-staged, effectively acted and involving if rather cosy and cuddly 1958 political drama The Last Hurrah is the second of his three distinguished films with young star Jeffrey Hunter, following The Searchers […]

Feb, 20

Crack-Up *** (1946, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 3,318

RKO’s entertaining 1946 Hitchcock-style American film noir espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Pat O’Brien in rather unlikely casting as George Steele, a small museum art expert and curator probing what turns out to be a […]

Feb, 03

The Front Page ***** (1931, Adolphe Menjou, Pat O’Brien, Mary Brian) – Classic Movie Review 1988

Producer Howard Hughes’s and director Lewis Milestone’s 1931 original first movie version of the enduring Charles MacArthur-Ben Hecht classic newspaper satire stage hit is a richly enjoyable and hugely rewarding sophisticated comedy entertainment. Its biting, sarcastic wit […]

Dec, 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

Some Like It Hot ***** (1959, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E Brown, George Raft, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 97

Billy Wilder’s 1959 film Some Like It Hot offers a comic take on the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, building a mountain of gags round a hilarious story of two musicians in drag fleeing gangsters by […]

Jul, 27

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