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You Can’t Run Away from It * (1956, June Allyson, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 11,969

Producer-director Dick Powell’s 1956 musical comedy film You Can’t Run Away from It stars June Allyson and Jack Lemmon, and is a remake of the Oscar-winning 1934 film It Happened One Night, which had previously […]

Mar, 01

Fun with Dick and Jane ** (2005, Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 11,936

Director Dean Parisot’s 2005 American black comedy remake film Fun with Dick and Jane stars Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni, and is written by Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller, based on Gerald Gaiser’s story and […]

Feb, 16

Rose Marie *** (1954, Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,865

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1954 MGM musical Rose-Marie is the third movie version of the great 1924 Oscar Hammerstein II-Otto A Harbach operetta, this time filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor. It stars Ann Blyth, Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas. French-Canadian backwoods […]

Jan, 20

Babycakes ** (1989, Ricki Lake, Craig Sheffer) – Classic Movie Review 11,855

Director Paul Schneider’s 1989 comedy Babycakes is an entirely unnecessary but pleasantly cast and tasty remake for American TV of Percy Adlon’s 1985 German film Sugarbaby [Zuckerbaby], providing a big fat part for Ricki Lake […]

Jan, 17

West Side Story **** (2021, Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Rita Moreno) -Movie Review

First off, the 1957 stage show West Side Story is brilliant and timeless, the best of its kind. Second, the 1961 film of it, West Side Story, is also brilliant and timeless, the best of […]

Dec, 20

Never Say Goodbye ** (1956, Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Ray Collins, David Janssen, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 11,640

Director Jerry Hopper’s 1956 American Technicolor comedy-drama romance film Never Say Goodbye stars Rock Hudson as a surgeon called Dr Mike Parker, who operates on Lisa Gosting (Cornell Borchers), the Viennese wife he walked out […]

Oct, 11

Gun Fight * (1961, James Brown, Gregg Palmer, Joan Staley) – Classic Movie Review 11,618

Director Edward L Cahn’s 1961 low-budget black and white support feature Western film Gun Fight stars James Brown, Gregg Palmer and Joan Staley, from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams, and is an almost identical […]

Oct, 02

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