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Good News *** (1947, June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken, Mel Tormé) – Classic Movie Review 7872

MGM promoted Charles Walters from choreographer to first-time director for the colourful, fast-paced 1947 romantic musical comedy Good News, a Technicolor remake of their 1930 movie of the Buddy G DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told *** (1967, Lon Chaney Jr, Carol Ohmart, Quinn K Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner, Sid Haig, Mary Mitchel, Karl Schanzer, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 7871

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1967 black and white low-budget ($65,000) black horror comedy Spider Baby is one of those rare movies that has gone obscurity to cult status, so it is memorable if only just just for that, as well as for its incredible weirdness. It […]

Dec, 02 · in Reviews

Herbie Goes Bananas! ** (1980, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon, Elyssa Davalos, Harvey Korman, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Rocco, Fritz Feld) – Classic Movie Review 7870

Director Vincent McEveety’s 1980 Herbie Goes Bananas! is the fourth and final part of Walt Disney Productions’ original Volkswagen Beetle Herbie saga that began in 1968 with The Love Bug. Cloris Leachman star as Aunt Louise, […]

Dec, 02

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo ** (1977, Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Fox, Eric Braeden) – Classic Movie Review 7869

Director Vincent McEveety’s 1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is the third of the four original movies featuring Walt Disney’s cute Volkswagen Beetle love bug. This one sees Herbie off to compete in the Paris […]

Dec, 02

Herbie Rides Again *** (1974, Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, John McIntire, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 7868

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1974 children’s comedy Herbie Rides Again is the amusing sequel to Walt Disney’s The Love Bug (1968). It stars venerable actress Helen Hayes as the sweet little old lady Mrs Steinmetz who enlists the […]

Dec, 02

Savage Messiah **** (1972, Scott Anthony, Dorothy Tutin, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough, John Justin, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 7867

Director Ken Russell’s 1972 biographical drama Savage Messiah is a passionate pre-World War One biopic of the French painter-sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and older Polish woman Sophie Brzeska. It is a miniaturist masterwork from Russell in a […]

Dec, 01

Valentino *** (1977, Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane, Felicity Kendal) – Classic Movie Review 7866

The 1977 biopic Valentino is The Smouldering One according to provocative director Ken Russell and his magnetic dancing star Rudolf Nureyev. As in the 1951 film, also called Valentino, the story bears little resemblance to […]

Dec, 01

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