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Something for the Boys *** (1944, Carmen Miranda, Michael O’Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Sheila Ryan, Perry Como) – Classic Movie Review 11,519

Carmen Miranda is certainly something for some of the boys as defence plant worker Chiquita Hart. Director Lewis Seiler’s exuberant 1944 20th Century Fox Technicolor film Something for the Boys is a most entertaining movie […]

Aug, 26

I Thank You *** (1941, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Lily Morris) – Classic Movie Review 11,416

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 British black and white comedy film I Thank You stars Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott in a film crammed with World War Two wartime entertainment, most of which is very […]

Jul, 22

Give a Girl a Break *** (1953, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Helen Wood) – Classic Movie Review 9987

Director Stanley Donen’s 1953 MGM ‘Breezy, Teasy Color by TECHNICOLOR Musical’ film Give a Girl a Break stars doughty dames Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion and Helen Wood, each with their own champion, who vie for […]

Jul, 01

Anything Goes ** (1956, Bing Crosby, Donald O’Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris) – Classic Movie Review 9277

Anything goes certainly here in director Robert Lewis’s 1956 Paramount Pictures remake of Anything Goes, and the first thing that went in Sidney Sheldon’s script is the plot of the great Broadway show by Guy […]

Jan, 18

A Gunfight *** (1971, Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 8256

Director Lamont Johnson’s oddball and appealing 1971 Western A Gunfight stars Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash (in his second film acting performance following the 1961 crime drama Five Minutes to Live) as ageing shootists Will Tenneray […]

Mar, 18

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson ** (1976, Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 7532

Producer-director Robert Altman takes an ironic look at American history in the 1976 Western movie Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson, satirising American popular culture with the help of a top […]

Sep, 02

This Is the Army *** (1943, George Murphy, Joan Leslie, Ronald Reagan, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Irving Berlin) – Classic Movie Review 7091

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1943 movie This Is the Army provides military musical mayhem aplenty in this extravagant Technicolor wartime revue by Irving Berlin which, at the time of its release during World War Two, made […]

May, 24

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