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Posts Tagged "road movie"

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Back Roads *** (1981, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6628

Sally Field rejoins her favourite director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae, Murphy’s Romance) for this familiar but easy-going and likeable 1981 romantic-comedy road movie drama about a prostitute called Amy Post (Field) and a drifter failed fighter named Elmore […]

Jan, 30

Road to Bali *** (1952, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 6607

After a five-year layoff since Road to Rio, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour are back on the road again with director Hal Walker’s zippy 1952 Paramount comedy Road to Bali, the sixth in […]

Jan, 26

Road to Singapore *** (1940, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Charles Coburn, Anthony Quinn, Jerry Colonna) – Classic Movie Review 6606

Director Victor Schertzinger’s happy 1940 Paramount comedy Road to Singapore is the first of the memorable series of Road movies starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Hope and Crosby star as playboys Ace Lannigan […]

Jan, 26

Road to Rio *** (1947, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 6605

Director Norman Z McLeod’s zesty 1947 Paramount comedy is the fifth Road film with the magic team of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour on vivacious form. Nutty, escapist comedies were ideal for the […]

Jan, 26

The Long, Long Trailer **** (1954, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Moroni Olsen) – Classic Movie Review 5,929

The 1954 road movie comedy film The Long, Long Trailer is a sprightly, nimble vehicle for the real-life married pair Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who star as a couple who buy an all-too-expensive trailer-home […]

Aug, 17

Alice in the Cities [Alice in den Städten] **** (1974, Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer) – Classic Movie Review 5441

Writer-director Wim Wenders’s 1974 German drama tells a clever, bittersweet parable story about the relationship between a German journalist Phil Winter (Rudiger Vogler) and a little nine-year old girl called Alice (Yella Röttlander) he gets stuck […]

May, 12

Crazy Mama *** (1975, Cloris Leachman, Ann Sothern, Linda Purl, Stuart Whitman, Jim Backus, Tisha Sterling) – Classic Movie Review 5362

Director Jonathan Demme’s second movie (after Caged Heat) is this exciting 1975 exploitation crime thriller, with the young Demme again working for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures production company. Robert Thom’s screenplay is based on the […]

Apr, 29

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