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Flesh and Blood ** (1951, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood, André Morell, Ursula Howells, Freda Jackson, George Cole, James Hayter) – Classic Movie Review 11,576

Richard Todd stars in a dual role in the 1951 British drama film Flesh and Blood, based on the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, about three generations of the Scottish Cameron family. Director […]

Sep, 15

Flesh ** (1932, Wallace Beery, Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 11,575

Director John Ford’s 1932 MGM black and white drama Flesh stars Wallace Beery, Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez and Jean Hersholt. The story is by Edmund Goulding, and the screenplay is by Leonard Praskins (adaptation), Edgar […]

Sep, 14

The Flemish Farm ** (1943, Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter, Philip Friend) – Classic Movie Review 11,574

Director Jeffrey Dell’s 1943 British film The Flemish Farm is an honourable and conscientious if not particularly distinguished morale-boosting World War Two war drama, apparently based on fact. A well known, respected film in its […]

Sep, 14

Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch ** (1934, Pauline Lord, W C Fields, ZaSu Pitts, Evelyn Venable) – Classic Movie Review 11,573

Director Norman Taurog’s humorous 1934 Paramount Pictures comedy-drama film Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is worth watching for the performers and the laughs, even if the antique emotional manipulation seems too crude today. W […]

Sep, 14

Mrs Pollifax-Spy * (1971, Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Nehemiah Persoff, Harold Gould, Albert Paulsen, John Beck, Dana Elcar) – Classic Movie Review 11,572

‘Before she joined the CIA, Mrs Pollifax thought Red China was a set of dishes.’ Director Leslie H Martinson’s 1971 spy comedy Mrs Pollifax-Spy stars Rosalind Russell as the title character, and finds the always […]

Sep, 13

Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle *** (1994, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Andrew McCarthy, Wallace Shawn) – Classic Movie Review 11,570

Jennifer Jason Leigh is very effective as the mannered acid wit and writer Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph’s posh and good-looking but gossipy and suitably bitchy 1994 biopic Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle, from a […]

Sep, 12

Emergency Wedding [Jealousy] * (1950 Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, Willard Parker, Una Merkel, Alan Reed, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 11,546

Director Edward Buzzell 1950 comedy feature film Emergency Wedding (Jealousy in the UK) stars Larry Parks and Barbara Hale. It is a contrived, artificial and mediocre remake of the not specially impressive You Belong to […]

Sep, 03

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