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An Alligator Named Daisy **½ (1955, Donald Sinden, Diana Dors, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Holloway, Stephen Boyd, Roland Culver, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 4311
Director J Lee Thompson’s utterly daft, not very witty 1955 British Technicolor comedy An Alligator Named Daisy boasts a pleasant atmosphere and some moderate, simple guffaws, not least through the charming cast’s astonishing ability to […]
Casbah *** (1948, Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Marta Toren, Hugo Haas) – Classic Movie Review 4,296
The irresistibly daft 1948 musical fantasy adventure film is gaudily cast with Yvonne De Carlo as the lovely siren Inez, Tony Martin as the thief Pépé Le Moko, and, most treasurably, Peter Lorre. Come viz me […]
The Night Club Lady *** (1932, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Ruthelma Stevens, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 4293
This nifty mystery movie is the second film in Adolphe Menjou’s two-film Columbia Pictures’ series, followed by The Circus Queen Murder (1933). It is available to be seen on Turner Classic Movies. Menjou stars as top cop police […]
Figures in a Landscape ** (1970, Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm, Pamela Brown) – Classic Movie Review 4,245
Joseph Losey’s ambitious, arty 1970 film Figures in a Landscape stars Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell as men being chased through open spaces in an unspecified country by two men and their menacing helicopter. Figures […]
Jumper *** (2008, Hayden Christensen, Samuel L Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker) – Classic Movie Review 4229
Director Doug Liman’s attractive, entertainingly different 2008 sci-fi action adventure stars Hayden Christensen, Samuel L Jackson and Jamie Bell, with Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker, AnnaSophia Robb, Max Thieriot, Jesse James, Kristen Stewart and Tom Hulce as Mr Bowker. It starts […]
The Twelve Chairs ***½ (1970, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Diana Coupland, David Lander, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 4133
Writer-director Mel Brooks’s engaging 1970 movie version of the much filmed 1920s classic Soviet satirical novel The Twelve Chairs by the Odessan Soviet authors Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov is sleek, witty and amusing. Ron Moody stars as […]
Eva **** (1962, Stanley Baker, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, James Villiers, Lisa Gastoni) – Classic Movie Review 3999
Director Joseph Losey’s beautiful looking, smart and clever 1962 erotic thriller is based on the 1945 novel Eve by James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, his first book filmed in 1948 […]