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Paid *** (1930, Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass) – Classic Movie Review 9400
Producer-director Sam Wood’s 1930 Paid [Within the Law] stars Joan Crawford as Mary Turner, who is wrongly jailed for three years as a youngster and comes out seeking justice against the men who put her […]
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 […]
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9051
Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a gripping series episode with a useful guest star turn from Cesar Romero as a conjurer called Rhadini helping Charlie Chan […]
The Crystal Ball *** (1943, Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Virginia Field, Cecil Kellaway, William Bendix, Ernest T ruex, Iris Adrian, Mary Fields) – Classic Movie Review 8943
Director Elliott Nugent’s playful 1943 Paramount picture The Crystal Ball is a likeably dizzy if underpowered comedy starring Paulette Goddard as Toni Gerard, a gal from Texas who loses out on a glamour contest (she […]
Slander *** (1957, Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 8,910
The 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller Slander stars Steve Cochran as a slick publisher whose sleazy gossip scandal magazine blackmails a TV children’s entertainer star Martin (Van Johnson). Director Roy Rowland’s 1957 […]
And Now for Something Completely Different **** (1971, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8791
Thank goodness the Monty Python team got the chance to put some of the most famous sketches compiled from their BBC TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus down on celluloid in Ian MacNaughton’s 1971 And […]
Hoffman *** (1970, Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch) – Classic Movie Review 8548
Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1970 British comedy Hoffman stars Peter Sellers as lonely office worker Benjamin Hoffman (Sellers), who is obsessed with the about-to-wed typist Janet Smith (Sinéad Cusack) and blackmails her into spending the week with […]