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Thanks for the Memory *** (1938, Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 10,689

‘A GAY STORY OF LOVE AND LAUGHS ‘ Director George Archainbaud’s 1938 black and white comedy Thanks for the Memory stars Bob Hope as writer Steve Merrick, whose marriage to bohemian Anne Merrick (Ross) is […]

Dec, 20

And the Band Played On ***** (1993, Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Ian McKellen, Richard Gere, Lily Tomlin, Patrick Bauchau) – Classic Movie Review 10,302

The urgent and timely 1993 American TV docudrama film And the Band Played On is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, who turns Randy Shilts’s controversial book about how and why the AIDS crisis happened into a […]

Sep, 14

She’s Working Her Way Through College ** (1952, Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 10,229

Warner Bros filmed a musical remake of their 1942 screwball comedy The Male Animal in 1952: She’s Working her Way Through College, with Virginia Mayo and Ronald Reagan. Director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1952 Technicolor film […]

Aug, 26

Streets of Laredo ** (1949, William Holden, William Bendix, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 9220

Director Leslie Fenton’s 1949 Western film Streets of Laredo is a routine but sturdy remake of The Texas Rangers (1936), this time starring William Holden and Macdonald Carey as old outlaw buddies Jim Dawkins (Holden) […]

Jan, 03

The Devil’s 8 [The Devil’s Eight] ** (1968, Christopher George, Ralph Meeker, Fabian Forte, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish, Ross Hagen, Cliff Osmond, Larry Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 9000

This time, in director Burt Topper’s 1968 The Devil’s 8 [The Devil’s Eight], it is a Dirty Half Dozen or So, as US federal government agent Ray Faulkner (Christopher George) lines up an ill-assorted gang […]

Oct, 21

Pennies from Heaven *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Edith Fellows, Madge Evans, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6890

Bing Crosby stars as Larry Poole, a Thirties modern-day troubadour with ambitions to be a singing gondolier in Venice. But, after a short spell in jail on a trumped-up charge, he fulfills a promise to […]

Apr, 06

Who’ll Stop the Rain [Dog Soldiers] *** (1978, Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey) – Classic Movie Review 6636

Director Karel Reisz obscures his gripping Seventies story about heroin-smuggling among Vietnam veterans by putting his energies into conjuring up atmosphere and character, making this a depressing study of troubled characters in a downbeat drama […]

Feb, 01

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