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Grease 2 ** (1982, Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer, Adrian Zmed, Lorna Luft, Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Connie Stevens, Tab Hunter, Joan Blondell) – Classic Movie Review 6946

The 1978 blockbuster musical hit Grease is followed by director Patricia Birch’s ill-fated Grease 2 in 1982 with Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. A few cast members from the original movie such as Dody Goodman, Sid […]

Apr, 19

Old Heidelberg **** (1927, Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 6883

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1927 Viennese fairy tale romantic movie is one of the great silent film classics. It stars Norma Shearer and Ramon Novarro. Lubitsch’s beautifully realised bitter-sweet love story is the tale of Austrian crown […]

Apr, 03

Toy Soldiers *** (1991, Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, R Lee Ermey, Mason Adams, Denholm Elliott, Louis Gossett Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6735

Director Daniel Petrie Jr’s engaging 1991 movie stars the 20-year-old cheeky-faced cherub Sean Astin as Billy Tepper, whose title gang of naughty but nice schoolboys do good when Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff)’s evil Colombian terrorists take […]

Feb, 25

The Private War of Major Benson *** (1955, Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, Tim Hovey, William Demarest, Tim Considine, Sal Mineo, Nana Bryant, David Janssen, Mary Field) – Classic Movie Review 6511

Director Jerry Hopper’s 1955 movie stars an unusually cast Charlton Heston, who proves that he can play comedy with a deft touch in this amusing story of a big-mouthed, big-hearted American soldier, Major Bernard ‘Bernie’ […]

Jan, 02

Palm Springs Weekend ** (1963, Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Robert Conrad, Stefanie Powers, Jerry Van Dyke) – Classic Movie Review 6242

‘IT’S WHERE THE BOYS ARE AND THE GIRLS ARE…that swingin’ vacation weekend when American youth descends on America’s swankiest playground!’ As a kind of follow-on from 1960’s Where the Boys Are, this one could have been […]

Nov, 13

Madame Sousatzka *** (1988, Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Leigh Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 6025

Shirley MacLaine stars as Madame Sousatzka, dotty piano teacher to a 15-year-old prodigy, Manek Sen (Navin Chowdhry), in co-writer/ director John Schlesinger’s pleasantly offbeat 1988 drama of life in a West London house peopled by […]

Sep, 13

These Three **** (1936, Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea) – Classic Movie Review 5684

Because of the strict movie censorship rules of the Thirties, Lillian Hellman’s lesbian Broadway play The Children’s Hour couldn’t be filmed properly until 1962, when it was filmed under its proper title of The Children’s […]

Jun, 28

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