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Casanova Brown ** (1944, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise) – Classic Movie Review 7693

Director Sam Wood’s 1944 Casanova Brown boasts good stars in Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright and Frank Morgan, but this is no more than pleasant comedy, which is especially disappointing as there is an intriguing premise […]

Oct, 22

The Ice Follies of 1939 ** (1939, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 7665

Joan Crawford and James Stewart are on ice in director Reinhold Schunzel 1939 musical Ice Follies of 1939 – and it’s all in a day’s work for the stars at MGM. But not good work […]

Oct, 13

Blue Denim [Blue Jeans] *** (1959, Carol Lynley, Brandon De Wilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Vaughn Taylor, Warren Berlinger) – Classic Movie Review 7623

Director Philip Dunne’s 1959 drama Blue Denim [Blue Jeans in GB] is a still-fresh-seeming pioneering film on the theme of teenage pregnancy and abortion, and the actors and director Dunne keep it well ahead of […]

Sep, 29

We’re Not Married! *** (1952, Ginger Rogers, Fred Allen, Victor Moore, Paul Douglas, Eve Arden, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Louis Calhern, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Mitzi Gaynor, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 7605

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1952 We’re Not Married! is an entertaining and enjoyable film made up of separate stories about five wedded couples from Gina Kaus and Jay Dratler’s well assorted stories, varying from funny to touching, with […]

Sep, 20

The Leather Boys **** (1964, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7,580

A South London mechanic (Colin Campbell) marries a teenager (Rita Tushingham), but they drift apart, so he takes to going biking with his leather-jacketed gay biker chum (Dudley Sutton), in the trail-blazing 1964 British film […]

Sep, 16

Tender Is the Night *** (1962, Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 7501

F Scott Fitzgerald’s great 1934 semi-autobiographical novel Tender Is the Night about rich, troubled Americans in Europe in the jazz age Twenties is difficult to film, as the BBC found in its 1985 six-part serial […]

Aug, 26

How to Make an American Quilt *** (1995, Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 7432

Director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1995 American drama How to Make an American Quilt is based on the 1991 novel by Whitney Otto, with a screenplay by Jane Anderson, and stars Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for […]

Aug, 11

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