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How to Commit Marriage ** (1969, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 11,583

Director Norman Panama’s 1969 comedy How to Commit Marriage is a pleasant enough, though faded Sixties Bob Hope vehicle in which his real estate broker character Frank Benson agrees to keep secret his impending divorce […]

Sep, 18

Death in a French Garden [Pèril en la Demeure] **** (1985, Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy, Michel Piccoli, Anaïs Jeanneret) – Classic Movie Review 11,527

Michel Deville’s 1985 heady brew of a French crime mystery thriller film Death in a French Garden [Pèril en la Demeure] stars Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Nicole Garcia, Christophe Malavoy and Michel Piccoli. Director Michel Deville’s […]

Aug, 29

Michael Shayne: Private Detective ***½ (1940, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Valerie, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 11,238

Lloyd Nolan stars as Brett Halliday’s wisecracking private detective Michael Shayne in the first of the actor’s seven 20th Century Fox support thrillers. Director Eugene Forde’s 1940 black and white mystery thriller Michael Shayne: Private […]

May, 24

Isn’t It Romantic ** (1948, Veronica Lake, Billy De Wolfe, Patric Knowles, Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 11,101

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1948 black and white Paramount film Isn’t It Romantic stars Veronica Lake as Candy Cameron, who has two sisters (Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher) and prefers conman Rick Brannon (Patric Knowles), a […]

Apr, 16

The Lady Is a Square * (1959, Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott, Anthony Newley, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 10,931

‘Frankie Sings 5 Songs… & Dances!’ Co-producer/ director Herbert Wilcox’s 1959 black and white British comedy musical romance The Lady Is a Square stars his 55-year-old wife Anna Neagle along with Frankie Vaughan, Anthony Newley, Janette […]

Feb, 17

Old Mother Riley *** (1937, Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest) – Classic Movie Review 10,780

Director Oswald Mitchell’s 1937 British black and white comedy Old Mother Riley is the first of the 15-movie Old Mother Riley comedy series, which ran until 1952 and Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire, with […]

Jan, 12

Eat Drink Man Woman [Yin shi nan nu] *** (1994, Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang, Jia-Chien, Sylvia Chang) – Classic Movie Review 10,760

Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s scrumptiously tasty 1994 foodie comedy film Eat Drink Man Woman [Yin shi nan nu] is set in his native Taiwan and was his calling card to world movie-making. Shihung Lung stars […]

Jan, 06

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