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A-Haunting We Will Go *** (1942, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dante, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7361

Director Alfred Werker’s 1942 20th Century Fox black and white comedy A-Haunting We Will Go stars the essential Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as Stan and Ollie, who are conned by a group of swindling crooks (including […]

Jul, 28 · in Reviews

Andy Hardy Comes Home ** (1958, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Patricia Breslin, Sara Haden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7360

Director Howard W Koch’s 1958 Andy Hardy Comes Home is a rather sad, belated, out-of-time sequel to the Thirties and Forties Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), filmed a decade too late, with a 40-something Andy Hardy […]

Jul, 28 · in Uncategorized

By Candlelight *** (1933, Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Esther Ralston, Dorothy Revier) – Classic Movie Review 7359

Frankenstein director James Whale has a whale of a time with his 1934 classy little screwball romantic comedy By Candlelight about a lady’s maid, Marie (Elissa Landi), who meets a butler/ valet Josef (Paul Lukas) on a train […]

Jul, 28

A Family Affair **** (1937, Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7358

The success of their sleeper hit Ah Wilderness! (1935) prompted MGM to re-use many of the cast in A Family Affair (1937), the first in its Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), including Lionel Barrymore, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Eric […]

Jul, 28

Ah Wilderness! ***** (1935, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Bonita Granville) = Classic Movie Review 7357

‘Clarence Brown’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s great American drama’. Perhaps it is surprising that MGM should want to turn posh dramatist Eugene O’Neill’s one-off nostalgic comic play about a provincial small-town American family around 1900 […]

Jul, 27

Pollyanna **** (1960, Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou, Donald Crisp, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7356

Writer-director David Swift’s 1960 children’s movie Pollyanna is Hayley Mills’s first film for Walt Disney, playing the title’s ever-optimistic Pollyanna, a tween girl who goes to live with her intimidating aunt Polly (Jane Wyman) and […]

Jul, 27

Summer Holiday **** (1948, Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7355

MGM’s boy star Mickey Rooney finally comes of age at 27 in ace director Rouben Mamoulian’s delightfully handsome and extravagant 1948 Technicolor musical rejig of Eugene O’Neill’s famed play Ah Wilderness! about a Danville, Connecticut, […]

Jul, 27

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