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‘IT’LL KILL YOU… WITH LAUGHTER!’ Director George Marshall’s 1945 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy thriller Murder, He Says is a twisted and hilarious combination of high camp and extremely black humour that is funnier […]
’36 hours of love!…’ Director Edward H Griffith’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white screwball comedy One Night in Lisbon is the welcome and enjoyable if uninspired fourth and penultimate paring of the delightful Madeleine […]
Director Anatole Litvak’s 1937 Warner Bros period screwball comedy Tovarich is written by Casey Robinson, based on a play by Jacques Déval and Robert E Sherwood (English version). It stars Claudette Colbert as the Grand […]
Director Sidney Lanfield’s 1942 Paramount Pictures black and white film The Lady Has Plans stars Paulette Goddard as newswoman Sidney Royce, who is confused with a tattooed lady criminal and attracts all the wrong kinds […]
Director Andrew L Stone’s 1938 Paramount Pictures black and white farcical film Say It in French stars Ray Milland as a wealthy American pro golfer called Richard Carrington Jr, who goes to France to play […]
Warner Bros’ inventive and witty 1938 vintage black and white crime comedy film A Slight Case of Murder is great fun, with ideally cast Edward G Robinson on top comic form sending up the usual […]
Director Claude Binyon’s 1949 screwball comedy Family Honeymoon stars Claudette Colbert as widowed Katie, a new bride who brings the three kids from her previous marriage along on the honeymoon, perplexing new stepdaddy Grant Jordan […]