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The Red Tent [Krasnaya palatka] *** (1969, Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Mario Adorf) – Classic Movie Review 9540

Director Mikhail K Kalatozov’s Italian-Russian 1969 film The Red Tent [Krasnaya palatka] [La Tenda Rossa] is an engrossing adventure saga based on General Nobile’s 1928 disastrous Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia. It is packed […]

Mar, 21

Mame * (1974, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Bruce Davison) – Classic Movie Review 9533

Director Gene Saks’s 1974 Mame is the way less than satisfactory movie of the all-time great Jerry Herman Broadway show, though even so it is a bit of a one-hit wonder – the title track […]

Mar, 20

Men O’War **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 9455

Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 two-reeler short comedy Men O’War stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as sailors on shore leave, who meet two giggling girls (Anne Cornwall, Gloria Greer) in the park. Written and […]

Mar, 03

Early to Bed *** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 9438

‘9:00 am to 10:00 am. That important hour when financial kings of American affairs open their mail.’ Director Emmett J Flynn’s 1928 two-reeler black and white silent comedy short Early to Bed is the first […]

Feb, 28

Beau James *** (1957, Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 9434

Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]

Feb, 27

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood * (1976, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Bruce Dern, Phil Silvers, Teri Garr, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 9115

Michael Winner’s 1976 comedy Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood stars the adorable comedienne Madeline Kahn as struggling Twenties actress Estie Del Ruth and Bruce Dern as director Grayson Potchuk, who adopt a […]

Dec, 01

Behind That Curtain ** (1929, Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Philip Strange, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 9069

Director Irving Cummings’s 1929 Behind That Curtain takes its place in movie history as the impossibly creaky but still intriguing first Charlie Chan film in sound. It is based on Earl Derr Biggers’s novel of […]

Nov, 14

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