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The Rose Tattoo **** (1955, Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan) – Classic Movie Review 7,544
The triple Oscar-winning 1955 film The Rose Tattoo stars a triumphant Anna Magnani, who acts her socks off as the Italian-extracted peasant widow Serafina Delle Rose, in this attractive screen version of Tennessee Williams’s 1951 […]
All the Way Home *** (1963, Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 7438
James Agee’s old-time all-American down-home story of angst in the American southern provinces, set during the First World War, becomes a poignant and appealing movie under careful acting and discreet but intense handling by director Alex […]
Mother Carey’s Chickens *** (1938, Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Fay Bainter, James Ellison, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 7363
Director Rowland V Lee’s attractive 1938 RKO black and white Mother Carey’s Chickens is notable in itself but especially as it stars a wonderful cast – Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, Fay Bainter, James Ellison, Walter […]
Summer Magic *** (1963, Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Deborah Walley, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 7353
Director James Neilson’s 1963 teen movie Summer Magic stars Walt Disney’s number one star at the time, Hayley Mills, who in real life grows up to celebrate her 17th birthday (on 18 April 1963) but […]
Guarding Tess *** (1994, Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 7253
The amusing double act of Nicolas Cage and Shirley MacLaine give a big lift to co-writer/ director Hugh Wilson’s bumpily constructed 1994 Guarding Tess, which tells the tale of a hapless US secret service agent, […]
Mother Is a Freshman ** (1949, Loretta Young, Van Johnson, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Betty Lynn, Robert Arthur) – Classic Movie Review 7247
Director Lloyd Bacon’s gently amusing 1948 20th Century Fox comedy Mother Is a Freshman stars Loretta Young as a widowed mother who gets a scholarship left to her in a will, and so she and […]
Personal Property *** (1937, Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 7197
Jean Harlow eclipses the rest of the cast (even though she was ailing and made only one more movie, Saratoga) in director W S Van Dyke II’s mild if amiable 1937 romantic comedy Personal Property, […]