Columbia Pictures remade 1940’s Too Many Husbands as director H C Potter’s lively and carefree but thin 1955 Technicolor, CinemaScope musical Three for the Show. Betty Grable stars as Julie Lowndes, the showgal who finds […]
Shots are fired in a darkened room in the lively, inventive and unusual 1991 TV movie Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors. Joan Hickson takes on her eleventh case as the BBC’s detective Miss […]
Director Steve Miner’s 1994 comedy drama My Father, the Hero stars Gérard Depardieu, who re-creates his role in this coursened, disappointing American version of his amusing enough 1991 French romantic comedy Mon Père, Ce Héros. […]
Director Allan Moyle’s 1980 music drama Times Square is a surprising, happy modern-day fairy tale, appealingly played, thoughtfully written, well produced by British companies Robert Stigwood Organization and EMI Films in America, and well made […]
The suspenseful, escapist 1989 TV movie Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery again stars Joan Hickson in her tenth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. It is shot at […]
Harpo Marx takes centre stage for the Marx Brothers’ final movie together about mounting a Broadway show and foiling jewel thieves, in director David Miller’s 1949 black and white wisecracking comedy Love Happy [Kleptomaniacs]. Alas, there […]
The agreeable 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington stars Joan Hickson in her ninth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s novel. Miss Marple’s friend Mrs McGillicuddy sees a murder […]
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