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Director Ted Tetzlaff’s engrossing and impeccably handled 1949 film noir thriller The Window stars Bobby Driscoll, as a mischievous lad called Tommy who is prone to crying wolf. One hot summer night, he tells his […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 musical brings the series of four Broadway Melody movies to an end in great style with Fred Astaire and George Murphy kicking up a storm as Johnny Brett and King Shaw, […]
Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]
Director Busby Berkeley’s infectiously exuberant 1942 follow-up to his 1939 Babes in Arms again teams Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as hopeful talented young performers battling on Broadway, while putting on a show to send […]
Director Busby Berkeley’s 1939 musical is a triumph for Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the first and most famous of their ‘let’s put on a show’ movies, in which the kids of broke performers stage […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1937 movie is a top-of-the-class entry in Warner Bros’ Thirties boxing-movie cycle. Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as fight promoter Nick Donati, who turns a bellhop called Ward Guisenberry (Wayne […]
First-time director Crystal Moselle‘s documentary about the six Angulo brothers is the most impressive and essential personal biography since Amy. Locked in safe from the supposedly harmful outside world by their parents at home in […]