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- Guadalcanal Diary **** (1943, Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 13,842
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Posts Tagged "based on play"
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A Raisin in the Sun **** (1961, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee) – Classic Movie Review 7308
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1961 drama A Raisin in the Sun is a satisfying, moving and involving, though virtually one-set, filmed theatre version of Lorraine Hansberry’s long-running Broadway play, which won the 1959 New York Critics […]
Mourning Becomes Electra ** (1947, Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Coleman, Leo Genn, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 7263
Ah, yes, ‘Mother and Daughter Loving the Same Man!’ That idea could make an American romcom or it could be a Greek tragedy. Certainly here we don’t see the funny side of it. Writer/ producer/ […]
The Good Companions *** (1957, Eric Portman, Celia Johnson, Hugh Griffith, John Fraser, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Bobby Howes, Thora Hird, Rachel Roberts ) – Classic Movie Review 7238
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1954 The Good Companions is an ideal Fifties film version of J B Priestley’s funny novel and play about a concert party on tour. Shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope, it stars Eric […]
The Birdcage ** (1996, Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Dianne Wiest) – Classic Movie Review 7226
Elaine May (born 21 April 1932) made her first showbiz splash back in the Fifties performing as Nichols and May in improvisational comedy routines with her performing partner Mike Nichols. But they broke up in 1961 and it […]
The Rainmaker **** (1956, Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 7,175
The 1956 Technicolor drama The Rainmaker provides an outstanding showcase for Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn in this well-crafted film of N Richard Nash’s Broadway play. Earl Holliman won the 1957 Golden Globe for Best […]
The Rat Race **** (1960, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Oakie, Kay Medford, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 7,150
The unjustly forgotten 1960 romantic comedy film The Rat Race stars Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds as a struggling saxophonist and a taxi dancer, who live together and struggle to get ahead in the dog-eat-dog […]
Desire Under the Elms *** (1958, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 7143
Director Delbert Mann’s 1958 movie of playwright Eugene O’Neill’s Desire under the Elms stars Sophia Loren as Anna, who intrudes into a theatrical version of 19th-century New England, marries Ephraim Cabot (Burl Ives) and has […]