Director Ken Annakin’s enjoyable 1955 British Technicolor comedy Value for Money is based on a novel by Derrick Boothroyd and stars John Gregson as Chayley Broadbent, a blunt English Northerner who inherits rag-trade wealth and goes to London […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s intriguing, delightfully frivolous 1944 British comedy is about a group of drop-outs who found The White Elephant Club above a London Soho restaurant, run by Nina, a beautiful young White Russian émigrée (Margaret […]
In Bachelor Flat, a beloved eccentric English comedian runs along a California beach without his trousers and girls dash madly in and out of closets. Co-writer/ director Frank Tashlin adapts a play by Budd Grossman as […]
The admirable 1957 film The Bachelor Party is another classic Fifties TV drama by Paddy Chayefsky translated to the big screen, and in this one, five New York accountants are enjoying a stag night out […]
Susan Hayward stars in the glossy 1961 romantic drama film Back Street – the third and least Universal Pictures version of the Fannie Hurst soap opera novel – perhaps most notable for the frocks by […]
The 1941 romantic drama film Back Street is arguably the best and most romantic of the three Universal Pictures film versions of Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman’s love for a married man. A guaranteed […]
The 1932 romance Back Street is the first of three Universal Pictures film versions of Fannie Hurst’s famous tearjerker novel about a woman (Irene Dunne)’s devoted love for a married man, a rich and handsome […]
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