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The Man Within [The Smugglers] ** (1947, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood, Richard Attenborough) – Classic Movie Review 9121

Director Bernard Knowles’s 1947 adventure The Man Within [The Smugglers] is based on the novel by Graham Greene, and stars Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenborough. Little orphan Francis Andrews (Attenborough) solves […]

Dec, 03

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break [What a Man] ***** (1941, W C Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Dumont ) – Classic Movie Review 7395

Director Edward F Cline’s 1941 comedy Never Give a Sucker an Even Break finds the great W C Fields on superb form as ‘The Great Man’ in this story (written by him as Otis Criblecoblis) […]

Aug, 03

Too Many Parents *** (1936, Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews, Porter Hall, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 7241

Frances Farmer (19 September 1913 – 1 August 1970) made her film debut in Too Many Parents (1936). Alas, she was destined to make only 15 films, and is now more famous for her tragic story than her […]

Jul, 01

Untamed *** (1929, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gwen Lee, Lloyd Ingraham) – Classic Movie Review 5954

Following her star-making role of Diana Medford in the hit silent Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Joan Crawford’s first talkie, Untamed (1929), was made during the difficult period of MGM’s transition from silent to sound movies. But it was another success for Crawford, propelling her […]

Aug, 22

I Am Number Four **½ (2011, Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe, Jake Abel) – Classic Movie Review 4230

Alex Pettyfer stars as teenage hero John Smith in director D J Caruso’s interesting and intriguing though somehow lacking 2011 teen sci-fi action adventure thriller, based on Pittacus Lore’s young adult novel. Aliens and their guardians are hiding […]

Sep, 20

Auntie Mame ** (1958, Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4088

Producer-director Morton DaCosta’s 1958 Warner Bros comedy drama Auntie Mame is the musical Mame without the music, in which an unconventional, free-thinking socialite aunt adopts an orphan in the inter-war years when her brother dies. Based on […]

Jul, 27

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