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The Birds and the Bees *** (1956, George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven) – Classic Movie Review 7921

Director Norman Taurog’s 1956 The Birds and the Bees is a Technicolor and VistaVision remake of the 1942 black and white gem The Lady Eve, this time with George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven […]

Dec, 18 · in Reviews

The 3 Penny Opera [Die 3 Groschen-Oper] ****(1931, Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher, Fritz Rasp, Reinhold Schünzel, Valeska Gert) – Classic Movie Review 7920

The 3 Penny Opera [Die 3 Groschen-Oper] is the adaptation by Bertolt Brecht (story) and Kurt Weill (music) of John Gay’s opera The Beggar’s Opera, in which dashing gentleman thief Mack the Knife (aka Mackie […]

Dec, 18 · in Reviews

What Price Glory? *** (1926, (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores del Rio) – Classic Movie Review 7919

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1926 silent comedy-drama war film classic What Price Glory? (based on a 1924 long-running Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings) stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe as Captain Flagg and […]

Dec, 18

The Safecracker *** (1958, Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeanette Sterke, Victor Maddern) – Classic Movie Review 7,918

Ray Milland directs and stars in the 1958 British low-budget film noir thriller The Safecracker, an involving, fact-based wartime story of a locksmith, gone criminal as an antiques robber. Ray Milland directs and stars in […]

Dec, 17

What Price Glory *** (1952, James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, Robert Wagner, Marisa Pavan, William Demarest) – Classic Movie Review 7917

Director John Ford’s 1952 comedy drama What Price Glory? is a low-key Technicolor remake of the classic Raoul Walsh silent film from 1926 What Price Glory? (itself based on a 1924 long running Broadway play by […]

Dec, 17

It’s a Wonderful World **** (1939, Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 7916

‘I never met a dame yet who wasn’t a nitwit and a lunkhead.’ MGM signed up Paramount studios actress Claudette Colbert to star with their contract artist James Stewart in director W S Van Dyke […]

Dec, 17

Safety Last! ***** (1923, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother) – Classic Movie Review 7915

Directors Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer’s grand 1923 silent classic movie Safety Last! stars Harold Lloyd and tells the effortlessly humorous tale of a country lad (Lloyd), involved in a romantic love affair with a […]

Dec, 17

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