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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying **** (1967, Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 5447

Writer/ producer/ director David Swift’s 1967 American musical comedy film How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a most enjoyable, very jolly movie of a great Broadway show about the New York window cleaner called J […]

Jun, 08

Two Smart People *** (1946, Lucille Ball, John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan, Hugo Haas) – Classic Movie Review 5515

Director Jules Dassin’s 1946 thriller is a somewhat down-bill, down-at-heel mix of film noir, crime caper, romance and humorous chase drama starring Lucille Ball and Lloyd Nolan as confidence trickster Ricki Woodner and sheriff Bob […]

May, 29

The Lonely Guy ** (1984, Steve Martin, Robyn Douglass, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 5149

Steve Martin stars as struggling New York greetings card writer Larry Hubbard who is forced to follow the lifestyle of a single Lonely Guy when his girlfriend Danielle (Robyn Douglass) throws him out. He is […]

Mar, 13

Teenage Caveman * (1958, Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley, Frank DeKova) – Classic Movie Review 4954

A well-groomed young Robert Vaughn looks out of place as a Teenage Caveman in producer-director Roger Corman’s cheap-looking (on a $70,000 budget), quickly made (in two days apparently!) 1958 black-and-white science fiction/ horror/ adventure movie set in a […]

Jan, 28

Sinister *** (2012, Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Ransone) – Classic Movie Review 4814

Co-writer/ director Scott Derrickson’s implausible but satisfyingly twisty and scary 2012 British-Canadian-American supernatural horror film Sinister (written with C Robert Cargill) finds a good star role for Ethan Hawke as fictional washed-up true-crime writer Ellison […]

Dec, 29

Inkheart *** (2008, Brendan Fraser, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett, Sienna Guillory, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Stephen Graham, Jamie Foreman) – Classic Movie Review 4528

Director Iain Softley’s smooth and colourful 2008 family fantasy adventure takes the idea that ‘every story ever written is just waiting to become real.’ And the cinema just the place for that! Eliza Bennett plays […]

Oct, 24

Warlock **** (1989, Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 4412

Julian Sands stars as the pure evil Warlock, hotly pursued by witchfinder Giles Redferne (Richard E Grant), in the often thrilling and sometimes terrifying 1989 supernatural horror movie Warlock. Julian Sands stars as the pure […]

Sep, 26

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