Stage Door Canteen **** (1943, William Terry, Cheryl Walker, Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead) – Classic Movie Review 3,894

Franz Borzage’s glittering 1943 movie Stage Door Canteen is essential viewing for a nostalgic star-spotting look at Broadway’s and Hollywood’s Forties élite. It features 48 stars and six bands.  The 1943 American World War Two […]

The Bad and the Beautiful ***** (1952, Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 2363

The Girl Can’t Help It **** (1956, Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O’Brien, Barry Gordon, Henry Jones, John Emery, Juanita Moore, Julie London) – Classic Movie Review 1147

Producer/co-writer/director Frank Tashlin puts his comic-strip style onto this enjoyable 1956 musical satirical farce. Edmond O’Brien plays Fats Murdock, a gangster who takes on decrepit, down-at-heel PR agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to publicise his sexy, blonde bombshell, bimbo girlfriend […]

A Star Is Born **** (1976, Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 1126

Co-writer/director Frank Pierson’s hit 1976 musical stars Barbra Streisand in the prime of her hey-day, but it was risky remaking a film that already had two classic versions. Unsurprisingly, as, for some weird reason she has always had […]

The Phantom of the Opera **** (1962, Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 389

‘BENEATH HIS MASK… the Grotesque Face of Horror Unimaginable! INSIDE HIS HEART… the Desperate Desire for Beauty and Love!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1962 British remake of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is […]