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The Matchmaker **** (1958, Shirley Booth, Paul Ford, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine) – Classic Movie Review 7141
Director Joseph Anthony’s vivacious 1958 romantic comedy drama The Matchmaker is an engaging and amusing film version of the enduring, entertaining 1955 Thornton Wilder stage classic about the 1884 Yonkers scheming middle-aged widow matchmaker Dolly Levi […]
Personal Affair ** (1953, Leo Genn, Gene Tierney, Glynis Johns, Pamela Brown, Walter Fitzgerald, Megs Jenkins, Michael Hordern, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 7082
Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British film Personal Affair stars Leo Genn as Mr Barlow, a married Latin-language teacher as a British school who is the object of the infatuated affections of one of his pupils, 17-year-old Barbara […]
Period of Adjustment *** (1962, Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, John McGiver, Jack Albertson, Mabel Albertson, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 7043
Director George Roy Hill’s engaging 1962 black and white comedy drama brings to the screen one of Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known plays, with a marriage under threat while the husband George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) tries to ‘readjust’ […]
The National Health **** (1973, Jim Dale, Lynn Redgrave, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 7015
Director Jack Gold’s 1973 wickedly funny British black comedy is based on Peter Nichols’s smashing hit play, attacking the deficiencies in The British National Health System, the failures of British socialism and the erosion of […]
Bachelor Flat ** (1961, Tuesday Weld, Richard Beymer, Terry-Thomas, Celeste Holm) – Classic Movie Review 7003
In Bachelor Flat, a beloved eccentric English comedian runs along a California beach without his trousers and girls dash madly in and out of closets. Co-writer/ director Frank Tashlin adapts a play by Budd Grossman as […]
Tobacco Road **** (1941, Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy, Elizabeth Patterson, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6994
Director John Ford’s 1941 Great Depression-era comedy drama film Tobacco Road makes a tasty meal of Erskine Caldwell’s novel of Georgia poor farm folk dispossessed of their land. Charley Grapewin and Elizabeth Patterson hold centre stage […]
Home and Away ** (1956, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Lana Morris, Charles Victor, Thora Hird, Leslie Henson, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 6989
Co-writer/ director Vernon Sewell’s 1956 movie Home and Away is not the film of the Eighties TV soap, but a merry typically Fifties British B-comedy with a fairly dreadful plot about a working-class family that […]