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Room for One More [The Easy Way] *** (1952, Cary Grant, Betsy Drake) – Classic Movie Review 4544

Director Norman Taurog’s consistently amusing, pleasantly sentimental 1952 comedy drama stars Cary Grant and his then wife Betsy Drake, who play Anna and George ‘Poppy’ Rose, a real-life husband and wife who already have three children […]

Oct, 27 · in Reviews

Houseboat *** (1958, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Guardino, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 4543

Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s popular 1958 romantic comedy Houseboat has the inestimable advantage of teaming wonderful Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, great friends in real life, in their glorious golden days. There were two Oscar […]

Oct, 27 · in Reviews

The Prince Who Was a Thief *** (1951, Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Peggie Castle, Donald Randolph, Jeff Corey, Betty Garde, Marvin Miller) – Classic Movie Review 4,542

Life magazine attributed the supposed line of doubtful authenticity ‘Yonduh lies de castle of de caliph, my fadder’ to Tony Curtis in the 1951 Technicolor The Prince Who Was a Thief. Apocryphal it may be, […]

Oct, 26

Son of Ali Baba *** (1952, Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Susan Cabot, Victor Jory, Hugh O’Brian, William Reynolds, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 4541

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1952 cutely escapist adventure stars the young and handsome pair Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie (re-teamed after their 1951 The Prince Who Was a Thief was a hit), who whizz us off to old Bagdad […]

Oct, 26

The Black Shield of Falworth **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Barbara Rush, Herbert Marshall, Ian Keith, Rhys Williams, Dan O’Herlihy, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4,540

The 1954 movie The Black Shield of Falworth is an engagingly merry jape, in which Tony Curtis heads a starry cast as the dashingly handsome young Myles Falworth of Crisby Dale, who is in love […]

Oct, 26

Black Sheep ½ (1996, Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson, Christine Ebersole, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 4539

Chris Farley and David Spade re-team after Tommy Boy for director Penelope Spheeris’ s utterly moronic, shamefully slapstick 1996 American teen comedy that needs to be given the widest possible berth. Poor Tim Matheson co-stars as Al […]

Oct, 26

The Black Sheep of Whitehall ***½ (1942, Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier, Felix Aylmer, Henry Hewitt, Thora Hird, Ronald Shiner, Joss Ambler) – Classic Movie Review 4538

Co-director Basil Dearden’s funny, fast-paced 1942 British World War Two comedy for Ealing Studios features Will Hay in his familiar and beloved joke schoolmaster guise as Professor Davis, a soppy schoolmaster teaching at a correspondence college who is […]

Oct, 26

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