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Edison, the Man *** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 7913
Director Clarence Brown’s 1940 MGM drama Edison, the Man stars Spencer Tracy, who takes over from Mickey Rooney (who had played the inventor as a boy in the same year’s Young Tom Edison) to play […]
From the Earth to the Moon * (1958, Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Henry Daniell, Carl Esmond, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7413
Director Byron Haskin’s 1958 From the Earth to the Moon is a pathetic attempt to film the Jules Verne sci-fi fantasy adventure novels De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune […]
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story **** (2017, documentary) – Movie Review
Bombshell: A fascinating, ultimately sad story, hauntingly well told. Who knew it? The famous Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamarr was an under-appreciated genius inventor. Wow! Writer-director Alexandra Dean’s biographical, historical documentary tells a fascinating, moving, and ultimately sad […]
Fog Island *** (1945, George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 6133
Director Terry O Morse’s lusty, moderately engaging 1945 Agatha Christie-style revenge horror thriller stars George Zucco as Leo Grainger, an inventor ex-convict who summons those business associates he thinks have maliciously caused his troubles to a […]
Breathe ** (2017, Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers, Diana Rigg) – Movie Review
Actor Andy Serkis’s directorial debut is a surprisingly traditional and conventional biopic film. It is also straightforward, plain and sentimental, just when something rigorous and offbeat, even experimental, is required. It is very honorable, very English […]
Charlie Chan in London *** (1934, Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Douglas Walton, Alan Mowbray, Mona Barrie, Ray Milland, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 5613
Director Eugene Forde’s 1934 mystery thriller stars Warner Oland as the Oriental detective Charlie Chan in the sixth film in the long-running series produced by the Fox studio, and only the second not to be lost, after The Black […]
The Wrong Trousers **** (1993, voice of Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 5566
Co-writer/ director Nick Park’s amusing, clever, and appealing 1993 Oscar-winning animated short film is the second of his four Academy Award winners, following Creature Comforts (1989). Peter Sallis again voices Wallace, who is used by […]