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Klondike Annie *** (1936, Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 7503

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1936 musical comedy Western is Mae West’s sixth movie vehicle from the time of her unexpected huge stardom. The screenplay is by the star, based on her play Frisco Kate by Mae […]

Aug, 27

Fanny *** (1961, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz) – Classic Movie Review 6399

Director Joshua Logan’s romantic 1961 film is Hollywood’s second version of Marcel Pagnol’s Marius trilogy (first made in America before as Port of Seven Seas in 1938) arriving on screen via Logan’s and S N Behrman’s […]

Dec, 12

Let George Do It ***½ (1940, George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Browne, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4874

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film stars George Formby as George Hepplewhite, a daft ukulele playing concert-party member, who mistakes Bergen, Norway, for Blackpool, England. Having taken the wrong boat and […]

Jan, 11

Bridget Jones’s Baby *** (2016, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson) – Movie Review

Bridget Jones’s Baby are three words to strike terror in some movie goers, but this old-fashioned romp is surprisingly amusing, likeable and genial, a few casual stereotypes and bad attitudes apart. Really, it is not […]

Nov, 05

Come on George! *** (1939, George Formby, Pat Kirkwood, Joss Ambler, Meriel Forbes, Cyril Raymond, Ronald Shiner) – Classic Movie Review 3821

Co-writer/director Anthony Kimmins’s vintage 1939 Ealing studios comedy boasts a particularly exuberant star turn from George Formby as an ice-cream seller who tames a dangerous race-horse, is engaged to look after him and rides him […]

Jun, 08

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