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Charlie Chan in Shanghai *** (1935, Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke, Halliwell Hobbes, Jon Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8692

Director James Tinling’s 1935 Charlie Chan in Shanghai is the ninth Charlie Chan film produced by 20th Century Fox with the title character played by Warner Oland. Charlie Chan heads for Shanghai on the request of the US […]

Jul, 11 · in Reviews

Cross Creek **** (1983, Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 8691

Director Martin Ritt’s 1983 Cross Creek tells the story of a real-life writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, who in 1926 left her husband and home in the big city to start a […]

Jul, 10 · in Reviews

Shanghai * (1935, Loretta Young, Charles Boyer, Warner Oland) – Classic Movie Review 8690

‘Love Hurls a Challenge… At a Law As Old as Civilization Itself!’ Director James Flood’s turgid 1935 romantic melodrama Shanghai stars Loretta Young as an American woman called Barbara Howard, who stands by a Shanghai financier […]

Jul, 09

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo ** (1937, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field) – Classic Movie Review 8689

Alas, director Eugene Forde’s 1938 thriller Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is Warner Oland’s last Chan adventure, and it is hard to get excited about its plot concerning missing metallurgic bonds while Chan is on […]

Jul, 09

Charlie Chan at the Race Track *** (1936, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8688

‘Oh gee, Pop, when are we going to arrest somebody?’ asks Charlie Chan (Warner Oland)’s jumping-jack Number One Son, Lee Chan (Keye Luke). Has a prize horse kicked to death its rich owner just before […]

Jul, 09

Alice *** (1990, Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, Keye Luke, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis, Bernadette Peters, Cybill Shepherd, Julie Kavner, Gwen Verdon, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 8687

Writer-director Woody Allen’s enjoyable 1990 romantic comedy Alice once again stars Mia Farrow, as Alice Tate, an uptight rich New York City housewife who meets and falls for handsome sax player Joe Ruffalo (Joe Mantegna), […]

Jul, 09

Divorce Italian Style **** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli) – Classic Movie Review 8686

Packed with comic passion, Pietro Germi’s thoroughly entertaining 1961 Italian commedia nera [black comedy] film Divorce Italian Style [Divorzio all’Italiana] stars the indispensable Marcello Mastroianni as a poverty-stricken Sicilian aristocrat, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù, who wants […]

Jul, 09

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