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Come Live with Me *** (1941, James Stewart, Hedy Lamarr, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7,410

MGM’s appealing 1941 romantic comedy film Come Live with Me stars Hedy Lamarr as a Viennese refugee who marries a struggling, hungry American author (James Stewart) to get US citizenship and live in America. Producer-director […]

Aug, 07

It’s a Gift ***** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol) – Classic Movie Review 7396

In perhaps his finest comedy, a deliciously on-form W C Fields plays a henpecked New Jersey general store owner called Harold Bissonette, who is having a hard time, what with Baby Dunk (Baby LeRoy), the annoying […]

Aug, 04

Checkpoint ** (1956, Anthony Steel, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice, Odile Versois, Maurice Denham, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 7319

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1956 British crime thriller Checkpoint is a middling, but quick-moving and feisty motor racing adventure, with lovely Italian backgrounds. Stanley Baker provides a strong, genial presence as O’Donovan, an industrial spy sent […]

Jul, 21

The Cars That Ate Paris **** (1974, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Kevin Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7214

Writer-director Peter Weir’s 1974 directorial calling card movie The Cars That Ate Paris is a tense, eerie and atmospheric tale of Australia’s Outback, where a far-flung small community makes its living causing car crashes and […]

Jun, 23

I Remember Mama **** (1948, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 7192

Director George Stevens’s warm-hearted 1948 black-and-white classic household drama I Remember Mama stars Oscar nominated Irene Dunne as careful Norwegian-born Mama, who struggles to make ends meet in turn-of-the-last-century San Francisco (it is around 1910). Stevens’s […]

Jun, 19

Goodbye Charlie *** (1964, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Pat Boone, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 6929

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1964 fantasy romantic comedy Goodbye Charlie is an attractively cast and well-played version of George Axelrod’s 1959 Broadway play about a jealous husband (Walter Matthau) murdering a philanderer, a lecherous Hollywood writer named […]

Apr, 16

Capricorn One **** (1977, Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterson, O J Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Telly Savalas, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 6794

Skillfully written and directed by Peter Hyams (The Presidio), this invigorating 1977 action adventure thriller supposes that NASA’s first manned mission to Mars is actually an American Government hoax simulated in a TV studio. But […]

Mar, 12

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