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Come Fly with Me ** (1963, Dolores Hart, Hugh O’Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 9318

Director Henry Levin 1962 grounded Come Fly with Me tells the romantic tale of three empty-headed air hostesses (Dolores Hart as Donna Stuart, Pamela Tiffin as Carol Brewster and Lois Nettleton as ‘Bergie’ Bergstrom) looking […]

Jan, 29

Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] **** (1941, Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 9160

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 Freedom Radio [A Voice in the Night] is a tense, exciting, well-meaning, intelligent British wartime propaganda thriller, in which a Nazi-sympathiser actress, Irena Roder (Diana Wynyard), chums up to Hitler in […]

Dec, 15

Spring Parade **** (1940, Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings, S Z Sakall, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7743

Director Henry Koster’s 1940 Spring Parade is a sweet and entertaining featherweight romantic musical, in which Hungarian girl Ilonka Tolnay (Deanna Durbin) grows up to be the baker Latislav Teschek (S Z Sakall)’s helper in the […]

Nov, 02

Freud **** (1962, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks) – Classic Movie Review 7186

A bearded, haunted looking Montgomery Clift’s intelligent performance as the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the clear and riveting direction by John Huston, and Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt’s revealing screenplay all combine […]

Jun, 17

The Emperor Waltz *** (1948, Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 5942

The acid Billy Wilder directs a 1948 film of a sugary Viennese operetta, and the resulting romantic comedy musical is extremely well done. Bing Crosby is improbably cast but ingratiating as a pushy American gramophone salesman […]

Aug, 20

The Mysterious Lady *** (1928, Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz) – Classic Movie Review 5330

Directed by Fred Niblo in 1928, MGM’s tailor-made silent-movie showcase for the great Greta Garbo is stilted and hackneyed but still has its charms. Garbo stylishly plays a gorgeous Soviet agent called Tania Fedorova, who […]

Apr, 21

The Wedding March ***** (1928, Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4227

Ring the bells for this exhilarating silent movie classic, wayward director Erich von Stroheim’s last masterpiece, beautifully restored in a shining new print. The director himself entertainingly over-acts as Prince Nickolas von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg – Nikki […]

Aug, 24

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