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Days of Thrills and Laughter *** (1961, Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Keystone Kops, Fatty Arbuckle, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Mack Sennett) – Classic Movie Review 7590

The 1961 Days of Thrills and Laughter is the third of writer-producer Robert Youngson’s valuable compilations of classic silent movie clips. It features comedy and action-scene highlights from the careers of Charlie Chaplin [Charles Chaplin], […]

Sep, 18 · in Uncategorized

When Comedy Was King *** (1960, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Ben Turpin, Fatty Arbuckle) – Classic Movie Review 7589

Double Oscar-winning writer-producer Robert Youngson’s 1960 compilation feature film When Comedy Was King toasts the great clowns of silent comedy and brings together excerpts from many silent slapstick classics, which are carefully edited together for […]

Sep, 18 · in Reviews

Inventing the Abbotts *** (1997, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Will Patton, Kathy Baker) – Classic Movie Review 7588

Director Pat O’Connor’s amusing, offbeat 1997 romantic drama Inventing the Abbotts is packed full of entertaining, oddball characters, well played by a talented ensemble cast. It is written by Ken Hison, based on a story by […]

Sep, 17

Song for a Raggy Boy *** (2003, Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, John Travers, Chris Newman, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7587

The harsh 2003 drama Song for a Raggy Boy stars Aidan Quinn as William Franklin, who lands a teaching job at a bleak and severe Catholic boys’ Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland. Soulful […]

Sep, 17

The Stud * (1978, Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Mark Burns, Doug Fisher, Walter Gotell) – Classic Movie Review 7586

Joan Collins romped back to box-office success and public favour in 1978 romp The Stud. Throwing caution to the wind and getting all her kit off, the 45-year-old Joan Collins romped back to box-office success […]

Sep, 17

The Walking Stick ** (1970, David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy Mayne, Francesca Annis, Bridget Turner, Emlyn Williams, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7585

Director Eric Till’s 1970 British movie The Walking Stick is an only middling suspense thriller. But there is very decent playing by David Hemmings as a handsome, smooth London crook called Leigh Hartley and Samantha […]

Sep, 17

Rotten to the Core ** (1965, Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Griffith, Dudley Sutton, James Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 7584

The 1965 British comedy Rotten to the Core (aka Rotten to the Corps) is amusing enough, with some good laughs, though it is essentially an ordinary, old-fashioned heist-thriller comedy from the Boulting Bothers, greatly helped […]

Sep, 17

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