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Bleak Moments **** (1971, Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan) – Classic Movie Review 11,225

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s promising, distinguished first film Bleak Moments (1971) is an often affecting, sometimes harrowing, occasionally funny slice of life in South London, where secretary Sylvia (Anne Raitt) ekes out a bleak and pointless […]

May, 20

Big Business Girl ** (1931, Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 10,268

Producer-director William A Seiter’s 1931 black and white romantic comedy Big Business Girl stars Loretta Young as Claire ‘Mac’ McIntyre, who succeeds in business while helping the swing band singing career of her boyfriend Johnny […]

Sep, 06

Ever Since Eve * (1937, Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,140

In 1937, the 40-year-old Marion Davies filmed her last movie, director Lloyd Bacon’s screwball romantic comedy Ever Since Eve, in which she plays an attractive young woman fed up having to quit job after job […]

Aug, 06

Gambling on the High Seas ** (1940, Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 10,074

Director George Amy’s 1940 Warner Bros black and white crime drama Gambling on the High Seas is a short and snappy though not very sharp semi-thriller remaking the 1935 Bette Davis-George Brent vehicle Special Agent. […]

Jul, 22

Her Cardboard Lover ** (1942, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 9964

Director George Cukor’s 1942 MGM black and white romantic comedy Her Cardboard Lover stars Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor and George Sanders. It proved the final film of Norma Shearer, one-time ‘The First Lady of MGM’ or […]

Jun, 26

Too Beautiful for You [Trop Belle Pour Toi!] *** (1989, Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 9216

Gérard Depardieu stars in the 1989 French romantic comedy drama film Too Beautiful for You [Trop Belle Pour Toi!] as Bernard Barthélémy, a car dealer with a comfy life, a lovely wife, Florence (Carole Bouquet), […]

Jan, 02

Revenge of the Pink Panther ** (1978, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 8871

Director Blake Edwards’s 1978 comedy Revenge of the Pink Panther is only mildly amusing. Peter Sellers’s last hurrah as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau has virtually no story and is really no more than just a […]

Aug, 27

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