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Little Miss Marker [The Girl in Pawn] **** (1934, Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 9195

Director Alexander Hall’s 1934 Little Miss Marker [The Girl in Pawn] is a delightful film of Damon Runyon’s fun short story about the grizzly gambler bookmaker Sorrowful Jones (Adolphe Menjou) having to reluctantly adopt cute […]

Dec, 28

Little Miss Marker ** (1980, Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Sara Stimson, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9194

Writer-director Walter Bernstein’s 1980 comedy Little Miss Marker stars an even more grumpy than usual Walter Matthau as Sorrowful Jones, the bookie blessed with a little bundle of cute trouble, The Kid (Sara Stimson), left […]

Dec, 27

The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] *** (1954, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 9193

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1954 British Hammer Films black and white film noir triangle suspense crime drama The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] is filmed and set in England, and stars Alex Nicol and Hillary […]

Dec, 27

Critic’s Choice *** (1963, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Marie Windsor, John Dehner) – Classic Movie Review 9,191

The 1963 American comedy film Critic’s Choice is based on the 1960 Broadway play by Ira Levin, and teams Bob Hope and Lucille Ball for the fourth and last time. Director Don Weis’s 1963 American comedy film Critic’s […]

Dec, 26

Crocodile Dundee II ** (1988, Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 9190

Director John Cornell’s 1988 action adventure comedy Crocodile Dundee II again stars Paul Hogan as laidback man from the Aussie Outback Michael ‘Mick’ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee, who returns with more of the same amiable, easy-going comedy, […]

Dec, 26

Penny Gold * (1973, James Booth, Francesca Annis, Nicky Henson, Una Stubbs, Sue Lloyd, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 9186

Director Jack Cardiff’s 1973 Penny Gold has a very friendly cast to recommend it, but it is a creaky old Seventies British thriller about a dead woman’s evil twin sister (Francesca Annis) being involved in a […]

Dec, 23

Souls at Sea **** (1937, Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee) – Classic Movie Review 9182

‘Men Against The Sea! Stark Drama No Fiction Can Equal!’ Producer-director Henry Hathaway’s 1937 Souls at Sea is a popular Gary Cooper high seas action adventure about the American navy battling slave traders in the […]

Dec, 22

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