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Union Depot **** (1932, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Blondell, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, George Rosener, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 5699

Director Alfred E Green’s 1932 Warner Bros drama is a tastily mixed cocktail of assorted lives at a central railway station, among them gentleman-thief Chick Miller (Douglas Fairbanks Jr), stuck and stranded, out-of-work showgirl Ruth Collins (Joan […]

Jul, 02

Les Portes de la Nuit **** (1946, Pierre Brasseur, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 5268

Marcel Carné’s gorgeously atmospheric 1946 French semi-classic film tells a typically doomed love story and is set in the nocturnal, winter Paris of the immediate post-war period. Yves Montand and Raymond Bussières play buddies who […]

Apr, 07

The Long Absence [Une Aussi Longue Absence] **** (1961, Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Charles Blavette) – Classic Movie Review 4884

Co-writer/ director Henri Colpi’s affecting 1961 first feature film stars Alida Valli as Thérèse Langlois, an isolated, lonely French bar proprietor, who sees an amnesiac tramp (Georges Wilson) walking past her small café in the […]

Jan, 12

Breaking the Bank * (2016, Kelsey Grammer, Tamsin Greig, John Michael Higgins) – Movie Review

Something has gone wrong – well, quite a few things – with Vadim Jean’s well-meaning, good-hearted Britcom, reuniting him with Kelsey Grammer, the star of his 1998 comedy The Real Howard Spitz. Warm and appealing TV […]

Jun, 03

Sullivan’s Travels ***** (1941, Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Porter Hall, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2593

As World War Two rages, writer-director Preston Sturges calls Hollywood to task for its frivolity in his brilliant 1941 serio-comic road movie. Sturges’s movie is a classic satire, still funny, relevant and worthwhile. Joel McCrea […]

Jun, 13

Modern Times ***** (1936, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman) – Classic Movie Review 2552

Charles Chaplin’s endlessly clever, inventive and witty 1936 satire on modern factory methods, inspired by René Clair’s famous 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté, is a silent comedy made nearly a decade after […]

Jun, 02

The Circus **** (1928, Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 2534

Writer-producer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1928 silent movie is both funny and delightful. Once again he takes on his familiar persona as the Tramp, hiding out from the police in a circus, where he soon falls for […]

May, 30

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