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A Cup of Kindness ** (1934, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Dorothy Hyson, Claude Hulbert ) – Classic Movie Review 11,180

Director Tom Walls’s 1934 British black and white farcical comedy film A Cup of Kindness is based on a Ben Travers screenplay from his own 1929 Aldwych stage farce that has dated more than some about […]

May, 07

Manhandled *** (1949, Dan Duryea, Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden) – Classic Movie Review 10,964

Director Lewis R Foster’s 1949 Manhandled is a very tolerable 1940s black and white film noir thriller and represents a nice change of pace for Dorothy Lamour as Merl Kramer, who is mixed up in […]

Feb, 25

Du Barry Was a Lady *** (1943, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O’Brien, Zero Mostel, Tommy Dorsey) – Classic Movie Review 9892

Cole Porter’s 1939 hit stage show with Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr is less satisfactorily cast with non-singing comedians Lucille Ball and Red Skelton for director Roy Del Ruth’s vigorous and amusing 1943 MGM film […]

Jun, 11

It Had to Be You ** (1947, Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde, Percy Waram) – Classic Movie Review 8969

Directors Don Hartman and Rudolph Maté’s 1947 comedy It Had to be You stars Ginger Rogers as daffy Victoria Stafford, who leaves three grooms at the altar before dashing fireman Cornel Wilde drives her wild […]

Oct, 09

High Barbaree ** (1947, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell, Cameron Mitchell, Claude Jarman Jr, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 6806

Although director Jack Conway’s 1947 MGM adventure is based on the story by the Mutiny on the Bounty authors Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, it is a drab desert island fantasy. Van Johnson stars […]

Mar, 15

La prisonnière [Woman in Chains] *** (1968, Élisabeth Wiener, Bernard Fresson, Laurent Terzieff) – Classic Movie Review 6646

Writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s stylish last film is his only one in colour. An unclassifiable erotic and psychological thriller, it focuses on the troubled mentality of an attractive young a television editor called Josée (Élisabeth Wiener) who […]

Feb, 03

Scribe [La mécanique de l’ombre] **** (2016, François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila ) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Thomas Kruithof’s really good and exciting French Seventies-style 2016 paranoia thriller is intensely acted, grippingly done and stylishly filmed. François Cluzet stars as the depressed, alcoholic, recently unemployed Duval, who is contacted by […]

Jul, 21

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