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The History of Mr Polly **** (1949, John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Betty Ann Davies, Edward Chapman, Diana Churchill, Gladys Henson, Miles Malleson) – Classic Movie Review 8544

H G Wells’s comic novel The History of Mr Polly is effectively and brightly brought to the screen in 1948 with a witty screenplay by writer-director Anthony Pelissier and one of John Mills’s best performances […]

Jun, 03 · in Uncategorized

In Praise of Older Women *** (1978, Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Susan Strasberg, Helen Shaver, Alexandra Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 8543

Director George Kaczender’s enjoyably sexy 1978 Canadian romantic comedy drama In Praise of Older Women stars the ideally cast young and hunky Tom Berenger, who has a good time as the callow, curly-topped hunk Andras […]

Jun, 03 · in Reviews

In Old Chicago ***** (1938, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Tom Brown) – Classic Movie Review 8542

Director Henry King’s 1938 In Old Chicago is a sumptuous, beautifully acted and thoroughly enjoyable, fanciful tale of old Chicago running up to the Great Fire of 1871. Alice Brady picked up a best supporting […]

Jun, 03

In Old California *** (1942, John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 8541

Director William C McGann’s 1942 action romance Western In Old California stars John Wayne, trying to stretch his range and acting muscles a little to play a Boston pharmacist! Wayne, not your usual Hollywood bespectacled pharmacist, […]

Jun, 03

In Old Oklahoma [War of the Wildcats] *** (1943, John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, Dale Evans, Grant Withers, Sidney Blackmer) – Classic Movie Review 8540

‘Wildcat Men and their Wildcat Women!’ Director Albert S Rogell’s 1943 romance Western In Old Oklahoma [War of the Wildcats] stars John Wayne as nice cowboy Dan Somers, who takes on Albert Dekker’s bad oil tycoon […]

Jun, 03

The Hindenburg ** (1975, George C Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton) – Classic Movie Review 8539

Among the intriguing star actors aboard the tolerable but glum 1975 disaster movie The Hindenburg are George C Scott and Roy Thinnes as security men Colonel Franz Ritter (Scott) and Martin Vogel (Thinnes), Anne Bancroft […]

Jun, 02

The Wanderers **** (1979, Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, John Friedrich) – Classic Movie Review 8538

Co-writer/director Philip Kaufman delivers a highly entertaining slice of nostalgia in his 1979 teenage coming of age movie The Wanderers, with an expertly blended mix of comedy, drama, 1963 period atmosphere, rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack […]

Jun, 02

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