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My Brother Talks to Horses *** (1947, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 11,263
MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]
Mother Wore Tights *** (1947, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 11,251
Betty Grable had been the reigning box office queen since the beginning of the 1940s, and scored her biggest triumph with director Walter Lang’s Technicolor musical Mother Wore Tights in 1947. This amiable story dissecting […]
Miracle in Soho * (1957, John Gregson, Belinda Lee, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,222
Director Julian Amyes’s 1957 Eastman Color romantic drama Miracle in Soho is set in a central London fictional Soho street called St Anthony’s Lane, where a team of road workers arrives to dig up the […]
Clash by Night [Escape by Night] *** (1963, Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler, Peter Sallis, Alan Wheatley, Vanda Godsell, John Arnatt) – Classic Movie Review 11,221
Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler, Peter Sallis, Alan Wheatley, and John Arnatt star in the 1963 British black and white crime thriller Clash by Night. Crooks hijack a bus transporting criminals to jail to […]
Meet Nero Wolfe *** (1936, Edward Arnold, Lionel Stander, Dennie Moore, Joan Perry, Victor Jory, Nana Bryant) – Classic Movie Review 11,212
The 1936 Columbia Pictures black and white mystery thriller Meet Nero Wolfe is based on the 1934 novel Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout. Edward Arnold plays the gruff, boozy, stay-at-home New York detective hero. ‘I CAN […]
Monsieur Beaucaire *** (1924, Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Ian Maclaren, Doris Kenyon) – Classic Movie Review 11,155
‘Never Has Valentino Been Such a Lover, Such a Dancer, Such a Swordsman, Such a Dashing, Handsome, Lovable Hero as You’ll See Him in This Master Photoplay.’ Producer-director Sidney Alcott’s 1924 Paramount Pictures black and […]
Four Sided Triangle *** (1953, Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen) – Classic Movie Review 11,143
‘God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions – Ecclesiates.’ Writer-director Terence Fisher’s 1953 Four Sided Triangle is a daft but fascinating Hammer Films black and white clone fantasy film about […]