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Singles *** (1992, Bridget Fonda Campbell Scott Matt Dillon Kyra Sedgwick) – Classic Movie Review 6610

Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s 1992 tales of frustrated love among Seattle’s twentysomething singles are linked by an interest in the local expanding music scene and the ensemble’s shared home in a apartment building. This likeable film is […]

Jan, 27 · in Uncategorized

Reap the Wild Wind **** (1942, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, John Wayne, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston) – Classic Movie Review 6609

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s swashbuckling 1942 sea-faring high-adventure movie Reap the Wild Wind is a wildly extravagant, enormously entertaining and a hugely enjoyable experience. The film won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (for Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, William L Pereira […]

Jan, 27 · in Uncategorized

Aloma of the South Seas *** (1941, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Philip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 6608

It’s just a sarong at twilight as the saronged lady Dorothy Lamour leads director Alfred Santell’s lavish but creaky 1941 reworking of Maurice Tourneur’s 1926 silent movie (with Gilda Gray, Percy Marmont and Warner Baxter), mixing adventure and […]

Jan, 26

Road to Bali *** (1952, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 6607

After a five-year layoff since Road to Rio, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour are back on the road again with director Hal Walker’s zippy 1952 Paramount comedy Road to Bali, the sixth in […]

Jan, 26

Road to Singapore *** (1940, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Charles Coburn, Anthony Quinn, Jerry Colonna) – Classic Movie Review 6606

Director Victor Schertzinger’s happy 1940 Paramount comedy Road to Singapore is the first of the memorable series of Road movies starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Hope and Crosby star as playboys Ace Lannigan […]

Jan, 26

Road to Rio *** (1947, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 6605

Director Norman Z McLeod’s zesty 1947 Paramount comedy is the fifth Road film with the magic team of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour on vivacious form. Nutty, escapist comedies were ideal for the […]

Jan, 26

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm *** (1938, Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, Bill Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 6604

The 20th Century Fox studio radically changes the Kate Douglas Wiggin story as a musical-comedy-drama vehicle for its child star Shirley Temple as Rebecca Winstead, whose uncle, Henry Kipper (William Demarest), dumps her on her strict […]

Jan, 26

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