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The Rat Race **** (1960, Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Oakie, Kay Medford, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 7,150

The unjustly forgotten 1960 romantic comedy film The Rat Race stars Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds as a struggling saxophonist and a taxi dancer, who live together and struggle to get ahead in the dog-eat-dog […]

Jun, 10 · in Reviews

The Boy Downstairs *** (2017, Zosia Mamet, Matthew Shear, Deirdre O’Connell) – Movie Review

Writer-director Sophie Brooks’s 2017 Woody Allen-style romantic comedy drama The Boy Downstairs is pleasant, amusing and charming, with a pleasing, bitter-sweet situation, some good funny lines and appealing performances. Zosia Mamet plays a pleasantly confused […]

Jun, 10 · in Reviews

The Rare Breed ** (1966, James Stewart, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway) – Classic Movie Review 7149

James Stewart and Maureen O’Hara are attractive and appealing stars but they are largely wasted in director Andrew V McLaglen’s lethargic, sentimental 1966 Western that is as clean as a whistle, with smooth performances, a […]

Jun, 10

The Wolf Hunters ** (1949, Kirby Grant, Jan Clayton, Edward Norris) – Classic Movie Review 7148

Director Budd Boetticher’s humble 1949 Western stars Kirby Grant as Canadian Mountie Corporal Rod Webb, who tracks down evil fur trappers who are killing other fur trappers and stealing their furs, in this cost-conscious Monogram […]

Jun, 10

The Trail Beyond *** (1934, John Wayne, Noah Beery Sr, Noah Beery Jr, Verna Hillie, Robert Frazer) – Classic Movie Review 7147

Director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Trail Beyond is an exceptionally good-looking Thirties low-budget, quickly made Western, propelled with a lot of pace and action in a short running time of 55 minutes, as big […]

Jun, 10

Desire in the Dust ** (1960, Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott, Brett Halsey) – Classic Movie Review 7146

Raymond Burr stars in director William F Claxton’s 1960 Deep South film noir crime melodrama as wealthy Southerner, Colonel Ben Marquand, who greets ex-convict Lonnie Wilson (Ken Scott) after he has served six years in […]

Jun, 10

Desire Me * (1947, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart) – Classic Movie Review 7145

Robert Mitchum stars as the presumed dead soldier Paul Aubert, who comes home to Brittany from war service in World War Two to find his battle and German prison camp buddy Jean (Richard Hart, from […]

Jun, 10

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