The bizarre and unexpected star teaming of Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn fails to inject many laughs into director Ralph Thomas’s good-natured but slack Ninotchka-like 1956 comedy film The Iron Petticoat. Alas, the bizarre and […]
Director Gordon Flemyng and producer Jules Buck’s struggling 1968 British historical comedy drama Great Catherine stars Jeanne Moreau, Peter O’Toole, Zero Mostel and Jack Hawkins. George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 one-act play is too flimsy for an […]
Director Otto Preminger’s lush 1945 black and white costume drama A Royal Scandal [Czarina], with more than a few splashes of humour, stars Tallulah Bankhead as 18th century Russian queen Catherine the Great who shows […]
Director Peter Segal’s 1993 daffy crazy comedy Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult is an undemanding, hit-and-miss second sequel, a bit low on pace and verve, but with enough laughs (some in bad taste), […]
Director David Zucker’s brilliantly zany 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is more of the same comic misadventures with the treasurable Leslie Nielsen back as the seriously inept LA cop Lieutenant Frank […]
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1942 movie Cairo is a spy comedy, though MGM advertised it as a ‘BIG ROMANCE WITH MUSIC’. It stars Robert Young as an American news reporter called Homer Smith […]
‘NOTHING LIKE IT SINCE ‘GRAPES OF WRATH’. Director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 romantic adventure drama Wind Across the Everglades is based on the story Across the Everglades by Budd Schulberg. It is made by Schulberg Productions, […]
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