Director Charles Walters’s pleasing 1960 MGM Metrocolor comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies pleasantly and profitably pairs Doris Day with David Niven. Jean Kerr’s bestselling book about her life with theatre critic Walter Kerr, who […]
Horror expert Val Lewton unexpectedly produced a light-as-air romantic comedy as his last film in which Deborah Kerr plays Alison Kirbe of London, who is pursued aboard ship to the United States by three apparently […]
Producer-director Leo McCarey’s 1952 drama My Son John is one of the most glaring examples of 50s Hollywood’s rabid anti-communist attitudes with John Jefferson (Robert Walker) ostracised by his all-American family when he returns home […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1951 MGM movie Vengeance Valley is a capable, compact and substantial psychological Western, starring Burt Lancaster (as Owen Daybright) and Robert Walker (Lee Strobie) as rancher foster stepbrothers, one of whom (wicked […]
Unfortunately Ann Blyth is rather dull as tragic, ever unlucky in love torch singer Helen Morgan, who turns to the bottle for comfort, in this lame 1957 black and white Warner Bros biopic The Helen […]
Lovely though Donald O’Connor is, casting him as vaudeville comedian Buster Keaton in this misleading biopic of the great stone-faced silent movie comedian must count as a bit of an insult. The fanciful script concentrates […]
Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical Marriage Story (2019) should be called Divorce Story. It is the portrait of a marriage breaking up, broken up, and a once-loving couple trying to pick up the pieces. Adam Driver, […]
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