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All That Heaven Allows **** (1955, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3434

Admired cult director Douglas Sirk’s gloriously plush 1955 romantic melodrama All That Heaven Allows stars Jane Wyman as the lovely New England upper-class widow Cary Scott who falls for the down-to-earth, hunky, romantic, much younger […]

Mar, 01

Bend of the River [Where the River Bends] **** (1952, James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams) – Classic Movie Review 2019

Director Anthony Mann teams up with James Stewart again for the 1952 classic Western Bend of the River [Where the River Bends], with a slew of convincing performances, an impressive Technicolor production and plenty of […]

Dec, 30

Lover Come Back *** (1961, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall) – Classic Movie Review 1720

Director Delbert Mann’s delightfully breezy, glossy 1961 comedy of misunderstandings is the much hoped-for sequel to Doris Day and Rock Hudson’s 1959 hit Pillow Talk. Day plays a Madsion Avenue advertising executive who tries to […]

Sep, 29

Send Me No Flowers *** (1964, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall) – Classic Movie Review 1719

Director Norman Jewison’s perky and profitable 1964 comedy pairs Rock Hudson and Doris Day for the third and last time in their way too-short series of hit romantic comedy movies. Hudson plays a hypochondriac called […]

Sep, 29

Pillow Talk **** (1959, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 1718

The 1959 film Pillow Talk sparked off Doris Day and Rock Hudson’s series of profitable hit comedy movies. They teamed for three films and this is the best of them. Day was Oscar nominated as […]

Sep, 29

Written on the Wind **** (1956, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1545

Director Douglas Sirk’s penetrating, inspired 1956 movie expose of the idle, pointless lives of the self-destructive rich centres on an ultra-wealthy Texas oil family. Dorothy Malone won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing the sex-crazed […]

Aug, 13

The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300

Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]

Jun, 07

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