Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Bob Rafelson’s 1976 cult comedy drama film Stay Hungry stars Jeff Bridges as restless Alabama heir Craig Blake, who is suddenly orphaned. He turns his back on the country club values and […]
Director Edward H Griffith’s skillful and purringly pleasing if minor 1943 RKO musical The Sky’s the Limit stars Fred Astaire as Fred Atwell, a Flying Tiger squadron aviator who flies into New York on leave […]
Director Walter Forde’s original 1931 The Ghost Train is the second version (after a 1927 silent) of playwright Arnold Ridley’s classic stage farcical thriller about stranded travellers, a detective in disguise and smugglers at a […]
Ten years on in 1941, director Walter Forde gets to remake his own great 1931 comedy movie success The Ghost Train, based on playwright Arnold Ridley’s vintage stage play, now polished up as a vehicle […]
MGM’s spectacular 1941 musical drama is engaging, opulently made and lavishly cast. It follows the fortunes of three plucky gals (Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner), all charming, idiosyncratic beauties determined to aim for […]
Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer reunite from Ziegfeld Follies (1945) for more graceful dancing, filmed with flair and lavishness by MGM in glorious Technicolor. With Frank Morgan as Victor Trout, Leon Ames as Mr Candle, and Mildred Natwick […]
MGM’s exhilarating, eye-smackingly gaudy 1945 Technicolor film imitation of one of US producer Florenz Ziegfeld’s stage revues is a bright, spangly, brilliantly pretty curate’s egg of a movie. Alas it is weighed down with cobwebby […]
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