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Mr Hulot’s Holiday [Les Vacances de M Hulot] ***** (1953, Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Louis Pérault) – Classic Movie Review 2,408

French comedy genius Jacques Tati lets his hilariously clumsy Monsieur Hulot loose in a French beachside hotel for his beloved alter ego’s first film appearance, in the 1953 comedy gem Mr Hulot’s Holiday [Les Vacances […]

Apr, 19 · in Reviews

Jour de Fête ***** (1949, Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur) – Classic Movie Review 2,407

Jacques Tati’s 1949 French comedy film Jour de Fête is charming, funny, good natured and generous spirited. Co-writer/director Jacques Tati’s classic 1949 French comedy is charming, funny, good natured and generous spirited. Jour de Fête […]

Apr, 18 · in Reviews

Jungle Book *** (1942, Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Rosemary DeCamp, Patricia O’Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 2406

Directed by Zoltán Korda, producer Alexander Korda’s 1942 version of Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli stories suffers from hesitant handling and is uncertainly pitched between a fantasy adventure and a wildlife showcase. And it’s disappointing that Laurence Stalling’s […]

Apr, 18

The Jungle Book ***** (1967, voices of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders, Louis Prima, Sterling Holloway, J Pat O’Malley, Verna Felton, Bruce Reitherman) – Classic Movie Review 2405

Director Wolfgang Reitherman’s tremendous 1967 Walt Disney Productions animated film, inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic book of Mowgli stories, is nothing short of a magical experience. It is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney […]

Apr, 18

The Jungle Book 2 ** (2003, voices of John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Phil Collins, Tony Jay) – Classic Movie Review 2404

Indian boy Mowgli (voice of Haley Joel Osment), raised with the wolves, is torn between his jungle pals and life with his new friend Shanti (voice of Mae Whitman). Director Steve Trenbirth’s 2003 animated feature […]

Apr, 18

Jungle Book **** (1994, Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 2403

Director Stephen Sommers’s 1994 family adventure sees the Walt Disney Studio remaking its own beloved 1967 cartoon in a sleek, superbly realised live-action movie. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic, it is well pitched between a […]

Apr, 18

The Big Store *** (1941, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Margaret Dumont, Virginia Grey, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 2402

This Marx Brothers’ fifth and last film for MGM may possibly also be the least, but there are plenty of pleasures stocked up in this crazy comedy based on a story by Sgt Bilko’s creator, […]

Apr, 17

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