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‘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 […]
In his first film since he was paralysed in real life in a horse-riding fall, poor Christopher Reeve does sterling work as Jason Kemp, the quadriplegic wheelchair-bound accident victim who alleviates his boredom by spying […]
The MGM studio’s wonderfully plush and luscious remake of the Edward Knoblock stage yarn is World War Two wartime escapism gone mad, with notable casting in Ronald Colman as the beggar king Hafiz and Jamilla […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1940 Spring Parade is a sweet and entertaining featherweight romantic musical, in which Hungarian girl Ilonka Tolnay (Deanna Durbin) grows up to be the baker Latislav Teschek (S Z Sakall)’s helper in the […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1949 musical comedy My Dream Is Yours finds Doris Day on vivacious form as single mother Martha Gibson, a band singer struggling to become a radio star, and Jack Carson bright and breezy as […]
‘Everybody’s goin’ Gay with – Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.’ No, really? Director David Butler’s diverting 1950 Technicolor musical Tea for Two, a distant cousin to the Twenties show No, No, Nanette from which it […]
You’ve got to hand it to Luca Guadagnino. He’s gone from one of the best movies at the 2107 London Film Festival – Call Me by Your Name – to one of the worst in […]