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The Golf Specialist **** (1930, W C Fields, Shirley Grey, Allen Wood, Allan Bennett, William Black) – Classic Movie Review 9781

Director Monte Brice’s funny 1930 20-minute comedy short The Golf Specialist from RKO Pictures is W C Fields’s first talkie. It is shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey the site of many early film studios. […]

May, 17

Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Caroline Blakiston, James Cossins, Joan Greenwood, George Baker, Helena Michell) – Classic Movie Review 9,627

The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel again stars Joan Hickson, who tackles her seventh case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s 1965 novel. The sleuth finds fake identity, larceny […]

Apr, 11

A Touch of the Sun ** (1956, Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 9483

Director Gordon Parry’s 1956 British comedy A Touch of the Sun stars Frankie Howerd as William Darling, a put-upon bellhop/ hall porter at a crumbling hotel/ guesthouse, who discovers that he is the beneficiary of […]

Mar, 08

Hanky Panky ** (1982, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark) – Classic Movie Review 9231

Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]

Jan, 06

Little Miss Broadway *** (1938, Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, Phyllis Brooks ) – Classic Movie Review 9198

The teaming of Shirley Temple and Jimmy Durante is the main attraction and high point of director Irving Cummings’s pleasant 1938 musical Little Miss Broadway, though George Murphy and Edna May Oliver are good value […]

Dec, 29

Charlie Chan on Broadway *** (1937, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 9039

Director Eugene Forde’s 1937 mystery crime thriller Charlie Chan on Broadway stars Warner Oland as Chan, Keye Luke as Lee Chan, Joan Marsh as Joan Wendall, J Edward Bromberg as Murdock, Donald Woods as Speed […]

Oct, 31

You Gotta Stay Happy ** (1948, Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker, Percy Kilbride, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8651

‘IT HAPPENS up in the Wild Blue Yonder – it gets WILDER as they get FONDER! ‘ Joan Fontaine stars as Dee Dee Dillwood, who leaves her betrothed Henry Benson (Willard Parker) – her sixth […]

Jun, 28

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