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Beach Blanket Bingo ** (1965, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, Linda Evans, Paul Lynde, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 11,446

“These kids are nuts.” Frankie (Frankie Avalon) takes up skydiving, prompting Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) also to try free-falling, in the 1965 fifth beach party film Beach Blanket Bingo. Director William Asher’s 1965 American International […]

Aug, 04

Revenge of the Pink Panther ** (1978, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 8871

Director Blake Edwards’s 1978 comedy Revenge of the Pink Panther is only mildly amusing. Peter Sellers’s last hurrah as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau has virtually no story and is really no more than just a […]

Aug, 27

The Pink Panther Strikes Again **** (1976, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 8848

Co-writer/ director Blake Edwards’s 1976 crime comedy sequel The Pink Panther Strikes Again brings Peter Sellers back once more as bumbling Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau, who helps Scotland Yard to find kidnapped scientist Dr Hugo […]

Aug, 20

Battle for the Planet of the Apes ** (1973, Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy) – Classic Movie Review 5749

Director J Lee Thompson returns in 1973 to helm the fifth and final cinema outing in the original series for the intelligent, distinguished sci-fi franchise, in which, after a nuclear war, the apes are the […]

Jul, 12

The Wildcats of St Trinian’s * (1980, Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern, Joe Melia, Thorley Walters, Rodney Bewes, Maureen Lipman, Julia McKenzie) – Classic Movie Review 5743

Writer-director Frank Launder revived Ronald Searle’s anarchic St Trinian’s schoolgirls for a fifth movie after a 14-year gap in this 1980 British comedy, and seemed to forget to put in the laughs. Launder’s original screenplay […]

Jul, 10

Doomed to Die ** (1940, Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 5606

The 1940 American black and white mystery film Doomed to Die brings back Boris Karloff from Dulwich, Surrey, England, as Chinese sleuth Mr James Lee Wong. Director William Nigh’s sequel to The Fatal Hour (1940) again stars Boris […]

Jun, 14

The Thin Man Goes Home *** (1945, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 3684

Director Richard Thorpe’s enjoyable 1945 comedy thriller The Thin Man Goes Home is the fifth and penultimate Thin Man MGM mystery movie series entry starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. This time it is a […]

May, 09

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