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Tammy and the Doctor ** (1963, Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Beulah Bondi, Margaret Lindsay, Reginald Owen, Adam West, Alice Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 5512

Sandra Dee returns from Tammy, Tell Me True (1961) for the third Tammy tale movie Tammy and the Doctor (1963), her second and last appearance in the role, as Debbie Reynolds starred as Tammy in […]

May, 28 · in Reviews

Tammy and the Bachelor [Tammy] *** (1957, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers, Fay Wray, Sidney Blackmer, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 5511

Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016) stars in the first, and by far the best of the four Tammy films, all loosely based on the stories by Cid Ricketts Sumner. Here the kind-hearted, plucky young riverboat heroine Tammy […]

May, 28 · in Uncategorized

The White Sheikh [Lo Sceicco Bianco] **** (1952, Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 5510

This early Federico Fellini 1952 movie, his first as writer and sole director (after jointly filming 1951’s Lights of Variety), is an extremely eye-catching and highly diverting triumph. It focuses on a Rome honeymooning couple, Wanda […]

May, 27

I Vitelloni [The Young and the Passionate] ***** (1953, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini) – Classic Movie Review 5509

Co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s haunting, fascinatingly self-reflecting film from 1953 focuses on a group of five laddish youngster friends – Moraldo Rubini (Franco Interlenghi), Fausto Moretti (Franco Fabrizi), Alberto (Alberto Sordi), Leopoldo Vannucci (Leopoldo Trieste), Riccardo (Riccardo […]

May, 27

They’re a Weird Mob *** (1966, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli, Ed Devereaux, Slim DeGrey, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 5508

Producer-director Michael Powell’s fairly enjoyable, easygoing and good-natured 1966 comedy movie of cultural misunderstandings starts off when an Italian immigrant Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) arrives Down Under in Australia to take up a job as a […]

May, 27

The Boy Who Turned Yellow *** (1972, Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Brian Worth, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 5507

Michael Powell’s last film, released in the UK on 16 September 1972, was for the Children’s Film Foundation – ironically since this was the man driven out of Britain by the over-reaction to his horrific psycho serial killer […]

May, 27

The Battle of the River Plate [Pursuit of the Graf Spee] *** (1956, John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, Ian Hunter, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Lee, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5506

One of writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s final films together is this sturdy if surprisingly routine 1956 Second World War movie about the British Royal Navy’s pursuit and scuttling of the German pocket battleship Graf […]

May, 26

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