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Mame * (1974, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Bruce Davison) – Classic Movie Review 9533

Director Gene Saks’s 1974 Mame is the way less than satisfactory movie of the all-time great Jerry Herman Broadway show, though even so it is a bit of a one-hit wonder – the title track […]

Mar, 20

The Marseille Contract [The Destructors] *** (1974, Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Alexandra Stewart, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 8990

Director Robert Parrish’s 1974 movie The Marseille Contract [The Destructors] is a commonplace Seventies Euro-thriller yarn of US narcotics agent Steve Ventura (Anthony Quinn) hiring an English killer to bump off evil French crime and […]

Oct, 17

The House on Telegraph Hill **** (1951, Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan) – Classic Movie Review 8228

Director Robert Wise’s 1951 20th Century Fox black and white film noir thriller The House on Telegraph Hill stars Valentina Cortese [aka Valentina Cortesa] as Victoria Kowelska, a Polish concentration camp victim who takes over […]

Mar, 11

Blotto *** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin) – Classic Movie Review 7408

Director James Parrott’s 1930 three-reeler short film Blotto tells a quintessential Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy yarn in which, despite the ever-present vigilance of Mrs Laurel (Anita Garvin), they escape from Stan’s wife to a […]

Aug, 06

Romance in Manhattan *** (1935, Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl) – Classic Movie Review 6959

Director Stephen Roberts’s 1935 comedy/romance film is the Green Card of its day in its story that has a hapless foreigner, Karel Novak (Francis Lederer), a naive Czech immigrant, who arrives at Ellis Island in New […]

Apr, 23

Fools for Scandal * (1938, Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravet, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6755

Carole Lombard is uninspired in a rare flop movie for her. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1938 Warner Bros movie is an unexpectedly sad failure of a romantic comedy in which Fernand Gravey [Gravet] stars as a broke French […]

Mar, 01

Daisy Kenyon *** (1947, Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Ruth Warrick) – Classic Movie Review 6741

Joan Crawford has a great, overwrought time in 20th Century Fox’s 1947 romantic-drama film Daisy Kenyon, a heated melodramatic story of a romantic triangle. The starry cast of Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Ruth […]

Feb, 26

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