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Posts Tagged "Frank Sinatra"

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Strictly Sinatra ** (2001, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, Brian Cox, Alun Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 8,877

Ian Hart from Liverpool manages a decent Scots accent and a nifty vocal impression of Frank Sinatra, as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed with Ol’ Blue Eyes, in writer-director Peter Capaldi’s 2001 romantic […]

Sep, 03

Anchors Aweigh **** (1945, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, José Iturbi, Pamela Britton) – Classic Movie Review 3623

Gene Kelly returns to MGM as a favoured star and with a contract to choreograph too after becoming a hot star when they loaned him out to Columbia Pictures to appear in Cover Girl (1944) […]

Apr, 27

The Pride and the Passion *** (1957, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3075

Producer-director Stanley Kramer assembles a big important cast for his costly, professional, but lumbering and misbegotten 1957 film of C S Forester’s novel The Gun about the capture of a huge cannon by a British […]

Nov, 21

Von Ryan’s Express **** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Edward Mulhare, Brad Dexter, John Leyton, Raffaella Carrà) – Classic Movie Review 2,481

Allied prisoners of war make a daring escape by hijacking their freight train and fleeing through German-occupied Italy to Switzerland, in the 1965 World War Two adventure film Von Ryan’s Express, starring Frank Sinatra. Director […]

May, 14

Can-Can ***½ (1959, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2179

Director Walter Lang’s 1960 musical stars Frank Sinatra as a French attorney called François Durnais who talks his old judge buddy Paul Barriere (Maurice Chevalier) into trying to stop the gendarmes closing his girlfriend Simone […]

Feb, 17

High Society **** (1956, Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Film Review 1229

Director Charles Walters’s 1956 movie is a classy, pleasurable, richly enjoyable musical remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940). The sharply acidic social romantic comedy of the original is reworked by MGM as a smooth, glossy and ultra-plush […]

May, 18

Pal Joey ***½ (1957, Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak) – Classic Movie Review 1168

Director George Sidney’s 1957 film musical is a good but annoyingly far from ideal version of the legendary Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart 1940 Broadway show. Frank Sinatra takes over Gene Kelly’s stage role as the womanising […]

May, 02

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