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Merrily We Go to Hell [Merrily We Go to ____] *** (1932, Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 11,279

Director Dorothy Arzner’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white pre-Code era comedy drama Merrily We Go To Hell stars Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Florence Burton, Esther Howard, Kent Taylor and Cary […]

Jun, 07

Topper Takes a Trip **** (1938, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7204

Roland Young returns for director Norman Z McLeod’s polished and highly amusing 1938 Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel to the 1937 supernatural fantasy comedy Topper, as haunted banker Cosmo P Topper, who goes to […]

Jun, 21

Another Thin Man **** (1939, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 2264

The bubbly 1939 comedy detective thriller film Another Thin Man is another enjoyable Thin Man mystery, the third in the MGM six-movie franchise, based on Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op story The Farewell Murder. Director W […]

Mar, 14

Greyfriars Bobby *** (2005, James Cosmo, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 1448

Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh for supposedly spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until he died himself on 14 January 1872. Remaking and reworking Walt […]

Jul, 19

Greyfriars Bobby **** (1960, Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Andrew Cruickshank) – Classic Movie Review 1447

It’s Scotland in 1865, and Old Jock (Alex Mackenzie), an ancient, kind-hearted shepherd man, is fired by his callous employees and is followed by his cute wee Skye terrier doggie when he heads for the […]

Jul, 18

Best in Show *** (2000, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara) – Classic Movie Review 1096

Co-writer/director Christopher Guest’s 2000 satirical comedy about dog-crazy folk taking their pets to a top pedigree show in Philadelphia is blunt and silly but still it has its funny moments. The subject’s a good one […]

Apr, 15

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