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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case *** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fred Kelsey, Tiny Sandford, Frank Austin) – Classic Movie Review 7524

Director James Parrott’s and producer Hal Roach’s 1930 The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case is a black and white comedy short film starring the incomparable Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, released by MGM in 1930. Instead of the […]

Sep, 01

Hurricane * (1979, Jason Robards Jr, Mia Farrow, Trevor Howard Max von Sydow, Dayton Ka’Ne, Timothy Bottoms, James Keach) – Classic Movie Review 5742

This wet and windy 1979 update on John Ford’s 1937 adventure movie The Hurricane re-tells the story based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about a typhoon hitting a South Seas […]

Jul, 10

The Emerald Forest **** (1985, Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman) – Classic Movie Review 5456

Director John Boorman’s 1985 jungle adventure The Emerald Forest is both thrilling and uplifting, with director Boorman’s own son Charley Boorman starring as Tommy, a boy kidnapped at seven and brought up by an Amazon […]

May, 15

Miss Sadie Thompson *** (1953, Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray) – Classic Movie Review 5342

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1953 musical emotional and romantic drama stars sultry Rita Hayworth as Miss Sadie Thompson, the free-spirited, loose-morals heroine of this adaptation of the W Somerset Maugham short story Miss Thompson, later retitled […]

Apr, 24

The Rains Came **** (1939, Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaya, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 5,202

The 1939 romantic adventure film The Rains Came stars Tyrone Power as an Indian nobleman, trained as a doctor in America, who returns to India, where he dallies with English married woman (Myrna Loy). It […]

Mar, 26

Roxie Hart **** (1942, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Helene Reynolds, Iris Adrian, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3974

The winning 1942 showbiz satirical comedy film Roxie Hart stars Ginger Rogers in an exciting, rousing performance as a trashy Twenties Chicago singer-dancer who seeks out sensational press headlines by confessing to murdering her unfaithful […]

Jul, 04

Withnail & I **** (1987, Richard E Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 2579

Writer-director Bruce Robinson turns his memories of being an out-of-work actor into an art form. Robinson profitably digs into his own memories as a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and Francois Truffaut’s The […]

Jun, 10

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