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Father Goose *** (1964, Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3,073

Cary Grant’s spy code-name is Mother Goose in the feather-weight but charming 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose.  Director Ralph Nelson’s modest but sprightly 1964 wartime adventure romantic comedy Father Goose stars Cary Grant, […]

Nov, 20

L’homme qui aimait les femmes [The Man Who Loved Women] **** (1977, Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron, Nelly Borgeaud, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 3017

Director François Truffaut’s incisive and entertaining 1977 romantic comedy L’homme qui aimait les femmes [The Man Who Loved Women] boasts a subtle and touching central performance by Charles Denner as Bertrand Morane, the obsessed Frenchman […]

Oct, 30

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells **** (2000, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis) – Classic Movie Review 2689

A marvellous cast is assembled for director Gillies MacKinnon’s treasurable, heart-warming 2000 made-for-TV comedy drama, starring Judi Dench, Cleo Laine, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron. It is […]

Jul, 11

An American in Paris ***** (1951, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nina Foch, Georges Guétary) – Classic Movie Review 2515

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1951 dance movie An American in Paris was a triumph for him and Gene Kelly, as well as Leslie Caron. Half a dozen Oscars, including Best Picture, poured down on this breath-taking MGM musical, […]

May, 24

The L-Shaped Room **** (1962, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Bernard Lee, Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Emlyn Williams, Nanette Newman, Patricia Phoenix, Avis Bunnage) – Classic Movie Review 2427

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1962 film is a fragrant slice of Sixties London kitchen-sink life. It is one of the highspots of the brief flowering of British Sixties New Wave cinema. But it has international French star […]

Apr, 26

Gigi **** (1958, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold) – Classic Movie Review 2178

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 musical Gigi, with exactly the right stars in Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, was a huge hit and a surprise sensation at the Academy Awards. It is […]

Feb, 16

Funny Bones **** (1995, Lee Evans, Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, Leslie Caron, Richard Griffiths, Oliver Reed, Ian McNeice) – Movie Review 1690

Genius is at large in co-writer/director Peter Chelsom’s extraordinary and ambitious if erratic and over-long 1995 British comedy. The sporadically hilarious Brit comic Lee Evans is brilliant in this very odd, disorganised and rambling movie […]

Sep, 20

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