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- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye **** (1950, James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Helena Carter, Steve Brodie, Rhys Williams, Barton MacLane, Frank Reicher, John Litel, William Frawley, Neville Brand, Kenneth Tobey) – Classic Movie Review 13,940
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- The Echo Murders ** (1945, David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling) – Classic Movie Review 13,938
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- On sera heureux [We’ll Find Happiness] ****(2025, Mehdi Meskar, Aron Archer, Alexandre Landry) – Classic Movie Review 13,936
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Posts Tagged "melodrama"
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Enchantment *** (1948, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8882
‘Just About the Most Wonderful Love Story Ever Filmed!’ Director Irving Reis’s 1948 film Enchantment is a fairly enchanting, well-crafted, plushly produced little romantic melodrama, based on Rumer Godden’s novel Take Three Tenses, about a […]
Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] ***** (1929, Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 8733
Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s deservedly much admired German late-period silent cult favourite 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] stars Louise Brooks as a sweet young rich gal Thymiane, who goes downhill […]
Action of the Tiger ** (1957, Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Gustavo Rojo, Anthony Dawson, José Nieto, Helen Haye, Anna Gerbern, Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 8140
Director Terence Young’s busy and capably handled but cardboard 1957 action adventure Action of the Tiger stars Van Johnson as Carson, a manly American contraband runner and mercenary hired by glamorous blonde French woman Tracy […]
Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809
Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]
City Streets **** (1931, Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, William Boyd, Wynne Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 7808
‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]
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 […]
Home from the Hill **** (1960, Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 7443
Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 film Home from the Hill is a satisfying chunk of American Southern romantic drama with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 American Metrocolor CinemaScope drama film Home from the […]