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Up in the Cellar ** (1970, Wes Stern, Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Judy Pace) – Classic Movie Review 10,441

Wes Stern stars as Colin Slade, a college boy with a winning way with women, in writer-director Theodore J Flicker’s cheap-looking, sometimes sharp satire on sex and social mores, the 1970 comedy Up in the […]

Oct, 20

The American Success Company *** (1980, Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Steven Keats, Bianca Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 10,439

Director William Richert’s 1980 The American Success Company [Success] [American Success] is a peculiar but sometimes funny black comedy about the inexperienced but ambitious son of a credit-card tycoon who decides to change his luck […]

Oct, 20

Halls of Anger *** (1970, Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 10,438

Director Paul Bogart’s 1970 drama Halls of Anger stars Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges, James A Watson Jr, Rob Reiner, Edward Asner, John McLiam and Otis Day [Dewayne Jesse], and Patricia Stich. Sixty white […]

Oct, 20

Can’t Buy Me Love ** (1987, Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains) – Classic Movie Review 10,437

Director Steve Rash’s 1987 Can’t Buy Me Love [Boy Rents Girl] is a pleasantly routine American teen comedy with a familiar plot about nerdy outcast senior year boy (Patrick Dempsey) hiring popular, beautiful high-school cheerleader girl […]

Oct, 19

Finders Keepers *** (1984, Michael O’Keefe, Beverly D’Angelo, Louis Gossett Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,433

Director Richard Lester’s elaborate and boisterous 1984 screwball farce Finders Keepers is set on a trans-American train, aboard which a couple, Georgiana (Pamela Stephenson) and her lover Josef Sirola (Ed Lauter), have hidden their stolen […]

Oct, 18

In the Mood [The Woo Woo Kid] **** (1987, Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam, Beverly D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 10,432

Writer-director Phil Alden Robinson’s smart and quirky romantic comedy 1987 In the Mood [The Woo Woo Kid] stars Patrick Dempsey, who enjoys one of his best roles as the real life ‘Woo Woo Kid’ of […]

Oct, 18

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm *** (1962, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Eden, Walter Slezak, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 10,431

Directors Henry Levin and George Pal’s expensive, well-crafted, good-looking big-budget 1962 fantasy film The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm was made for the huge Cinerama cinema screen. The screenplay is based on the life […]

Oct, 18

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