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Moon Over Miami *** (1941, Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis) – Classic Movie Review 11,337

‘POOR GIRL’S PARADISE! Two sisters storm the Miami Millionaire Colony’ in Moon Over Miami (1941). Director Walter Lang’s 1941 Moon Over Miami stars Betty Grable, who clicks with the public as Kay Latimer, a Texas […]

Jun, 23

Lost Horizon (1973, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 10,524

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]

Nov, 10

Bird of Paradise ** (1951, Debra Paget, Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 8364

Lusty and lovely young couple Louis Jourdan and Debra Paget star in writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1951 romantic adventure Bird of Paradise, a remake of the 1932 Dolores Del Rio movie Bird of Paradise about the […]

Apr, 15

Destry *** (1954, Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Lori Nelson, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 8260

In 1954 director George Marshall recycles his own famous 1939 movie hit Destry Rides Again as a vehicle for Universal’s cowboy star, Audie Murphy, now renaming the work simply Destry. A very nearly shot-by-shot remake […]

Mar, 18

The Birds and the Bees *** (1956, George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven) – Classic Movie Review 7921

Director Norman Taurog’s 1956 The Birds and the Bees is a Technicolor and VistaVision remake of the 1942 black and white gem The Lady Eve, this time with George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor and David Niven […]

Dec, 18

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