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Hair **** (1979, John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 6,934

The great Sixties Broadway hippy stage rock musical Hair was filmed in 1979 with vibrant young stars John Savage and Treat Williams as New York hippies who revolt and burn their draft cards when faced […]

Apr, 17 · in Reviews

Swiss Family Robinson **** (1960, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Janet Munro, Sussue Hayakawa, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6933

Director Ken Annakin’s 1960 young people’s adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson is an old-style treat, a happy, well-produced, and thoroughly entertaining Disney version of the shipwrecked family stranded on a desert island saga. Based on […]

Apr, 16 · in Reviews

Switching Channels **** (1988, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6932

Switching Channels (1988) is none other than Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway newspapers comedy melodrama The Front Page spruced up for the satellite era, with the newspaper reporters of the original play updated to television reporters […]

Apr, 16

Swiss Miss ***½ (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Charles Judels, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 6931

Director John G Blystone’s 1938 comedy stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as cheesy mousetrap sellers in the Swiss Alps, who get swindled out of their money by a cheesemaker and become waiters at a […]

Apr, 16

Closely Observed Trains [Ostre sledované vlaky] **** (1966, Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský) – Classic Movie Review 6930

Co-writer/ director Jirí Menzel won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1968 for his affecting and entertaining 1966 Czechoslovakian satirical comedy Closely Observed Trains about the efforts of an apprentice guard (Václav Neckár) at […]

Apr, 16

Goodbye Charlie *** (1964, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 6929

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1964 fantasy romantic comedy Goodbye Charlie is an attractively cast and well-played version of George Axelrod’s 1959 Broadway play about a jealous husband (Walter Matthau) murdering a philanderer, a lecherous Hollywood writer named […]

Apr, 16

Switch ** (1991, Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco, Tony Roberts, Lysette Anthony, Bruce Payne) – Classic Movie Review 6928

Writer-director Blake Edwards’ s Switch (1991) stars an appealing Ellen Barkin, who scored a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical. Barkin grabs hold of her chance […]

Apr, 16

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