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A Touch of Class **** (1973, George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 10,729
Melvin Frank’s 1973 romantic comedy film A Touch of Class is one of the highspots of Glenda Jackson’s career, bringing her a second Best Actress Oscar, and co-star George Segal won a Golden Globe for […]
Oscar *** (1991, Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri, Kirk Douglas, Vincent Spano, Marisa Tomei, Tim Curry, Don Ameche, Eddie Bracken, Linda Gray) – Classic Movie Review 10,620
Director John Landis’s likeable 1991 screwball crime comedy Oscar stars Sylvester Stallone as Angelo ‘Snaps’ Provolone, an Italian mobster who is asked by his young accountant (Vincent Spano) for his daughter’s hand in this frantic […]
The April Fools *** (1969, Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Myrna Loy, Charles Boyer, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 10,133
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1969 romantic comedy drama The April Fools stars the always essential Jack Lemmon, who saves a faded, unsparkling late-Sixties neo screwball concoction, in which he plays a sad husband, newly-promoted New York […]
Big Business *** (1988, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 9828
‘Two’s company. Four’s a riot.’ An amusing screenplay and winning performances by brassy Bette Midler and subtle Lily Tomlin as two sets of identical twins ensured big business for Big Business (1988), this funny screwball […]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum *** (1966, Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford) – Classic Movie Review 8221
And a funny thing happened to the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum on the way to the screen for this 1966 British screwball comedy. Director Richard Lester […]
At Long Last Love ** (1975, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, John Hillerman, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 8137
With the world at his feet after the brilliant The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc? and Paper Moon, writer-producer-director Peter Bogdanovich wanted to pay homage to the Thirties Hollywood heyday musical, and Fred Astaire […]
The Fortune ** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 7217
Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty star in Mike Nichols’s 1975 flop farcical comedy The Fortune as bumbling conmen who abduct an heiress. Stockard Channing is charming and amusing as the heiress. ‘It takes three to […]