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Young Tom Edison *** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 7914

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 biopic Young Tom Edison stars the 19-year-old Mickey Rooney, who is conscientious in the star part in this plush, well-crafted first part of MGM’s two-film biography of the inventor Thomas Alva […]

Dec, 17 · in Reviews

Edison, the Man *** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 7913

Director Clarence Brown’s 1940 MGM drama Edison, the Man stars Spencer Tracy, who takes over from Mickey Rooney (who had played the inventor as a boy in the same year’s Young Tom Edison) to play […]

Dec, 16 · in Uncategorized

Upstairs and Downstairs ***(1959, Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, James Robertson Justice, Sidney James, Daniel Massey, Claudia Cardinale, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 7912

It is party time at the home of newly-weds Richard and Kate Barry (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) in director Ralph Thomas’s 1959 comedy Upstairs and Downstairs, a late-Fifties British sitcom-type study of the perils […]

Dec, 16

Uptown Girls ** (2003, Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear, Jesse Spencer, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Austin Pendleton) – Classic Movie Review 7911

Producer-director Boaz Yakin’s 2003 Uptown Girls stars Brittany Murphy as socialite Molly Gunn, who falls on hard times and gets a job as nanny to an obnoxious eight-year-old, Ray (Dakota Fanning). Despite lots of dodgy […]

Dec, 16

The Pied Piper *** (1942, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J Carrol Naish Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Peggy Ann Garner ) – Classic Movie Review 7910

Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]

Dec, 16

Pieces of April *** (2003, Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Sean Hayes, Derek Luke, Alison Pill) – Classic Movie Review 7909

Writer-director Peter Hedges’s 2003 Pieces of April stars Katie Holmes as flaky punk April Burns, whose family is coming to Thanksgiving dinner. But her oven is broken and she cannot cook, so she seeks help […]

Dec, 16

Return to the Edge of the World **** (1978, Michael Powell, John Laurie, Frankie Reidy, Grant Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 7908

Writer-director Michael Powell returns to Foula, one of the Shetland Isles, scene of his 1937 film The Edge of the World, along with its star John Laurie and a few other surviving members of the […]

Dec, 15

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