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Song of the Islands *** (1942, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 11,287

Victor Mature sails to the idyllic tropical isle of Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father and meets Betty Grable. Director Walter Lang’s 1942 film Song of the Islands is a friendly […]

Jun, 09

Tamahine ** (1963, John Fraser, Nancy Kwan, Dennis Price, Derek Nimmo, Justine Lord, James Fox, Coral Browne, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 8630

Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 Tamahine is a fusty, mild, old-style romantic comedy with plenty of routine, school-set and culture-clash laughs, based on the novel by Thelma Nicklaus. But it rolls along pleasantly and humorously, though […]

Jun, 23

Harriet Craig *** (1950, Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson) – Classic Movie Review 7,583

Joan Crawford gives quite a tour-de-force performance as the monstrous Mrs Craig in director Vincent Sherman’s 1950 drama film Harriet Craig.  Joan Crawford is the monstrous Mrs Craig in director Vincent Sherman’s 1950 drama film […]

Sep, 16

A Tale of Two Cities **** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Christopher Lee, Athene Seyler, Rosalie Crutchley, Ernest Clark, Paul Guers) – Classic Movie Review 6937

Director Ralph Thomas’s fine, ambitious 1958 British version of A Tale of Two Cities is the sixth film version of the Charles Dickens tale of heroics and romance during the French Revolution, carefully adapted by T […]

Apr, 17

Aloma of the South Seas *** (1941, Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Philip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 6608

It’s just a sarong at twilight as the saronged lady Dorothy Lamour leads director Alfred Santell’s lavish but creaky 1941 reworking of Maurice Tourneur’s 1926 silent movie (with Gilda Gray, Percy Marmont and Warner Baxter), mixing adventure and […]

Jan, 26

Cold Comfort Farm (1995, Kate Beckinsale, Ian McKellen, Joanna Lumley) – Classic Film Review 1156

Director John Schlesinger’s film stars the 22-year-old Kate Beckinsale, who gives a brisk, no-nonsense, confident turn as Flora Poste, the 1920s aspiring novelist heroine whose father has died leaving her virtually penniless. So she seeks out […]

Apr, 29

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