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The Wild Party ** (1975, James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King) – Classic Movie Review 12,038

James Ivory’s 1975 film The Wild Party is an interesting attempt to re-create the Fatty Arbuckle movie-scandal case. James Coco holds the attention as the 1920s comic Jolly Grimm, who holds a party that gets […]

Apr, 01 · in Reviews

Will Any Gentleman…? (1953, George Cole, Veronica Hurst, Jon Pertwee, Heather Thatcher, James Hayter, William Hartnell, Diana Decker, Joan Sims, Alan Badel, Sidney James, Peter Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 12,037

Director Michael Anderson’s 1953 British comedy film Will Any Gentleman…? stars George Cole as a timid bank clerk called Henry Sterling, in this amusing enough adaptation of the popular 1950 stage farce by Vernon Sylvaine, who […]

Mar, 31 · in Reviews

Man on a Tightrope *** (1953, Fredric March, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Grahame, Terry Moore, Richard Boone, Robert Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 12,036

Elia Kazan’s 1953 film Man on a Tightrope stars Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame and Cameron Mitchell, who are first rate in this moody tale of Czech circus folk trying to make a break […]

Mar, 30

Man of Flowers **** (1983, Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Sarah Walker, Werner Herzog, Julia Blake, Bob Ellis) – Classic Movie Review 12,035

‘It is very difficult to see yourself as others see you… or to see yourself at all’ – Charles Bremer.’ The 1984 Australian erotic drama film Man of Flowers is a unique, moving film from […]

Mar, 29

Man of Conquest *** (1939, Richard Dix, Joan Fontaine, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat, George Hayes, Ralph Morgan, Robert Armstrong, C Henry Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 12,034

In the 1931 Western film Cimarron, Richard Dix plays Yancey Cravat, who is based on real-life lawyer and gunfighter Temple Houston – the son of Sam Houston, whom Dix plays here in Man of Conquest […]

Mar, 29

The Leather Saint *** (1956, Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 12,033

Director Alvin Ganzer’s 1956 Paramount Pictures widescreen black and white spiritual drama The Leather Saint stars Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, and Cesar Romero. John Derek plays an Episcopalian minister, Father Gil Allen, who […]

Mar, 29

Leathernecking (1930, Irene Dunne, Ken Murray, Eddie Foy Jr) – Classic Movie Review 12,032

Irene Dunne was put under contract to RKO Pictures in 1930. Her first film was the supposedly long vanished, but now rediscovered movie Leathernecking (1930). Cimarron was the first of her five Academy Award nominations, […]

Mar, 29

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