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Cinderfella ** (1960, Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Henry Silva, Robert Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 5951

Writer-director Frank Tashlin’s 1960 sex-swap gender-bending fairy tale comedy stars Jerry Lewis as Cinderella as a fella. That’s the set-up and the plot has Cinderfella left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother (Dame Judith Anderson) and […]

Aug, 21

The Hidden Fortress [Kakushi-toride no san-akunin] ***** (1958, Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki) Classic Movie Review 5884

Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 Japanese adventure is one of Kurosawa’s deservedly admired, classic Samurai movies, and a world cinema landmark. Toshirô Mifune stars as a fearlesss Samurai warrior, General Rokurota Makabe, who during the […]

Aug, 08

Naughty Marietta **** (1935, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 5778

This 1935 movie of the 1910 operetta Victor Herbert (music) and Rida Johnson Young lyrics) gives Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy one of their best opportunities in the first of their series of very jolly, […]

Jul, 18

Mr Wong in Chinatown ** (1939, Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 5599

Boris Karloff continues to battle his odd and uneasy casting as San Francisco Chinese detective James Lee Wong, investigating an oriental princess’s death by poison dart in his hallway, in Monogram Pictures’ intriguing if modest […]

Jun, 13

Bagdad **½ (1949, Maureen O’Hara, Vincent Price, Paul Hubschmid) – Classic Movie Review 5307

Maureen O’Hara, Vincent Price and Paul Christian [Hubschmid] are happily employed – if not exactly well cast – in director Charles Lamont’s carefree 1949 escapist adventure that provides a most exotic, Technicolorful touch of the […]

Apr, 17

Peau d’Âne [Donkey Skin] [The Magic Donkey] **** (1970, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig) – Classic Movie Review 5196

French writer-director Jacques Demy withdraws from reality entirely now in his 1970 film – into childhood dreams and Freudian nightmares, both safe and disturbing at the same time. Catherine Deneuve romps through a magic forest […]

Mar, 23

The Prisoner of Zenda ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Madeleine Carroll, David Niven, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4,650

Ronald Colman stars in the rousing 1937 swashbuckler movie The Prisoner of Zenda – the first sound version and definitive film of Anthony Hope’s classic novel.  Director John Cromwell’s most satisfying and extremely rousing 1937 […]

Nov, 13

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