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Rosalie Goes Shopping *** (1989, Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold) – Classic Movie Review 11,851

Director Percy Adlon’s 1989 English-language German comedy film Rosalie Goes Shopping stars Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis and Judge Reinhold. Rosalie is a hefty German housewife, played by Marianne Sägebrecht, collaborating for the third time with […]

Jan, 16

Quiet Please: Murder **** (1942, George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 9871  

Shhhh… pray silence please… George Sanders is just committing a murder in the library… well that’s one way to get a book…  Director John Larkin’s 1942 Quiet Please: Murder is a pleasantly peculiar library-set crime-drama […]

Jun, 06

The Great Impostor *** (1961, Tony Curtis, Raymond Massey, Karl Malden, Edmond O’Brien, Arthur O’Connell, Gary Merrill, Frank Gorshin) – Classic Movie Review 7,121

Tony Curtis stars as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr, a cheat notorious for living in other people’s skins, in the wacky, revealing 1961 true-life comedy drama of false pretences The Great Impostor. Director Robert Mulligan’s wacky, […]

Jun, 05

How to Steal a Million *** (1966, Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 5682

Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn make a lovely couple and sail effortlessly though the 1966 caper film How to Steal a Million.  You might expect something a little bit more polished and classier – maybe […]

Jun, 28

The Match King *** (1932, Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Juliette Compton, Harold Huber, Claire Dodd, John Wray) – Classic Movie Review 3566

Based on the true tale of the real career of Ivar Kreuger and a novelised version of his life by Einar Thorvaldson, directors Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s little-known, antique 1932 drama is old-style film-making, […]

Apr, 13

The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund] **** (1977, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain) – Classic Movie Review 132

‘There’s no such thing as a perfect murder. That’s just a parlour game, trying to dream one up. Of course you could say there are a lot of unsolved murders. That’s different.’ Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant, […]

Aug, 07

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