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Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It [Mail Train] **** (1940, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman, Charles Oliver, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 6570

The third and last cheap and cheerful comedy thriller in the series is enlivened by the star performances of Gordon Harker and Alastair Sim working with an ideal script by comedy thriller experts Frank Launder, […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

Inspector Hornleigh *** (1938, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood, Wally Patch, Steven Geray, Edward Underdown) – Classic Movie Review 6568

Director Eugene Forde’s 1938 British movie is the first of three delightful comedy detective thrillers based on the BBC radio series Monday Night at Eight by Hans Wolfgang Priwin, which ran from 1937 to 1940. Gordon […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

The Ghost and Mrs Muir **** (1947, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Anna Lee, Natalie Wood, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 6,567

The 1947 fantasy comedy drama film The Ghost and Mrs Muir stars Gene Tierney as the widowed Mrs Lucy Muir, who buys a haunted home on the English coast. Lucy is befriended by the ghost […]

Jan, 16

Abbott and Costello in Hollywood ** (1945, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty, Bob Haymes, Jean Porter) – Classic Movie Review 6566

Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1945 MGM vehicle for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cast them as Buzz and Abercrombie, who run a barbershop in Tinseltown and become showbiz agents with Jeff Parker (Robert Stanton [aka […]

Jan, 16

Cry Danger *** (1951, Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey, Jean Porter) – Classic Movie Review 6,565

Director Robert Parrish’s suspenseful 1951 film noir crime thriller Cry Danger stars Dick Powell as paroled convict Rocky Mulloy, who tries to prove that he was innocent of the robbery he was framed and sentenced to […]

Jan, 15

The Youngest Profession *** (1943, Virginia Weidler, Jean Porter, Edward Arnold, John Carroll, Agnes Moorehead, Ann Ayars, Marta Linden, Dick Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 6564

Director Edward Buzzell’s pleasant 1943 movie-business-based romantic comedy is based on a book by Lillian Day. Virginia Weidler and Jean Porter star as autograph-hunting young friends Joan Lyons and Patricia Drew, who wander around the […]

Jan, 15

Inside Moves *** (1980, John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid) – Classic Movie Review 6,563

Director Richard Donner handles the warm-hearted 1980 feel-good drama film Inside Moves like a man who believes in it. He said it was ‘the smallest film I could do that was just very near and […]

Jan, 15

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