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Love Is a Ball [All This and Money Too] ** (1962, Glenn Ford, Charles Boyer, Hope Lange, Ricardo Montalban, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 12,662

The 1962 United Artists widescreen colour film Love Is a Ball [All This and Money Too] is a middling romantic comedy with the elegant Charles Boyer matchmaking in the pretty French Riviera scenery. Glenn Ford […]

Oct, 06

Follow the Boys * (1963, Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Janis Paige, Dany Robin) – Classic Movie Review 11,194

‘America’s No. 1 recording star belts out 4 big new songs… in the hilarious inside story of the gals who follow their gobs… from port to Riviera port!’ Why was this very American comedy musical […]

May, 11

The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] ** (1956, Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O’Connell, Natalie Trundy, Mischa Auer, Renato Rascel) – Classic Movie Review 11,158

The 1956 Italian comedy-drama film The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] is the German-born Marlene Dietrich’s sole Italian movie. Writer-director Samuel A Taylor’s resolute 1956 bid to revive the style of Thirties sophisticated comedy stars Marlene Dietrich, […]

May, 02

Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] **** (1963, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval) – Classic Movie Review 9595

Director Henri Verneuil’s 1963 French-Italian crime thriller Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] stars Jean Gabin as old career criminal Mister Charles and Alain Delon as his young former cellmate Francis Verlot, and is […]

Apr, 04

Tender Is the Night *** (1962, Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 7501

F Scott Fitzgerald’s great 1934 semi-autobiographical novel Tender Is the Night about rich, troubled Americans in Europe in the jazz age Twenties is difficult to film, as the BBC found in its 1985 six-part serial […]

Aug, 26

That Riviera Touch ** (1966, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Suzanne Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 6573

Director Cliff Owen’s 1966 French Riviera caper comedy is the second of only three films from beloved British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Following The Intelligence Men (1965), Morecambe and Wise’s second attempt […]

Jan, 17

Murderers’ Row ** (1966, Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Beverly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6374

There is some mild Sixties spy spoof fun to be had from director Henry Levin’s silly, vacuous second Matt Helm 1966 spy comedy-thriller caper (following the hit The Silencers). The splendidly insouciant, carefree, unconcerned and light-hearted Dean Martin […]

Dec, 08

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