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Better Off Dead… * (1985, John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Amanda Wyss, Demian Slade, Aaron Dozier) – Classic Movie Review 10,707
Writer-director Savage Steve Holland’s aimless but sometimes amusing 1985 teen comedy Better Off Dead… stars John Cusack as teenager Lane Meyer, who has a crush on his girlfriend Beth Truss (Amanda Wyss) but has girlfriend […]
It’s in the Air **½ (1938, George Formby, Polly Ward, Garry Marsh, Jack Hobbs) – Classic Movie Review 10,497
Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1938 British black and white slapstick comedy It’s in the Air [George Takes the Air] stars George Formby as George Brown, the disaster-struck, motorbike-crazed rookie who joins the RAF as a message […]
It’s in the Bag! **** (1945, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 10,496
Director Richard Wallace’s wisecracking 1945 slapstick screwball comedy It’s in the Bag! [The Fifth Chair] stars baggy-eyed American radio comedian Fred Allen, who gets his best screen role as a flea-circus promoter/ ringmaster called Fred […]
The Brain [Le Cerveau] * (1969, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Silvia Monti) – Classic Movie Review 10,350
Director Gérard Oury’s 1969 French crime caper film The Brain [Le Cerveau] is a tepid, too unsubtle and slapstick-toned international Sixties heist comedy, wasting David Niven as a British NATO army colonel (‘The Brain’), who […]
4 Clowns [Four Clowns] **** (1970, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Buster Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 10,073
Writer-producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1970 97-minute cinema feature 4 Clowns [Four Clowns] is a tremendous silent-film comedy compilation with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both together and in their days alone, Charley Chase on fine form […]
The Golf Specialist **** (1930, W C Fields, Shirley Grey, Allen Wood, Allan Bennett, William Black) – Classic Movie Review 9781
Director Monte Brice’s funny 1930 20-minute comedy short The Golf Specialist from RKO Pictures is W C Fields’s first talkie. It is shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey the site of many early film studios. […]
The Runaway Bus *** (1954, Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris) – Classic Movie Review 9,477
‘All Aboard for a Non-Stop Ride of Fun!’ Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1954 British black and white crime comedy film The Runaway Bus stars Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark and George Coulouris. London’s Heathrow Airport […]