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Posts Tagged "based on novel"

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Mimi ** (1935, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Gertrude Lawrence, Diana Napier) – Classic Movie Review 12,733

The well-heeled 1935 British romantic film Mimi is based on Henri Murger’s 1851 novel La Vie de Bohème, and stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Gertrude Lawrence. Director Paul L Stein’s 1935 British black and white […]

Nov, 30

Enemies, A Love Story **** (1989, Anjelica Huston, Ron Silver, Lena Olin, Margaret Sophie Stein) – Classic Movie Review 11,847

Co-writer/ producer/ director Paul Mazursky’s 1989 film Enemies, a Love Story is based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1966 novel. It tells the strange post-Holocaust story of a Polish Jewish émigré (Ron Silver) in America who […]

Jan, 14

The Rich Are Always with Us ** (1932, Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, John Miljan, Bette Davis, Adrienne Dore) – Classic Movie Review 11,612

Director Alfred E Green’s 1932 pre-Code romantic comedy drama The Rich Are Always With Us [East of Shanghai] is based on the novel by Ethel Pettit, and stars Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, John Miljan, Bette Davis, and […]

Sep, 30

Green Mansions ** (1959, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Lee J Cobb, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 11,316

Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins romp in the forbidden forests beyond the Amazon. Director Mel Ferrer’s disastrous 1959 Metrocolor and CinemaScope romantic adventure drama Green Mansions stars the young and handsome Anthony Perkins and Audrey […]

Jun, 17

Night of Mystery [The Greene Murder Case] * (1937, Grant Richards, Roscoe Karns, Helen Burgess) – Classic Movie Review 11,314

Director E A Dupont’s 1937 remake Night of Mystery [The Greene Murder Case] is a disappointingly plodding and pedestrian Philo Vance mystery movie, based on the fine 1928 thriller novel The Greene Murder Case by […]

Jun, 16

The Young Doctors *** (1961, Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert, Aline MacMahon, Edward Andrews, Arthur Hill, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 11,298

‘Desires and Fears Screaming to Explode!’ Director Phil Karlson’s 1961 black and white film The Young Doctors stars Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin and Eddie Albert, in this humdrum hospital drama adapted […]

Jun, 12

My Brother Talks to Horses *** (1947, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 11,263

MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]

Jun, 02

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