Tag: houseboat
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Double Bunk ** (1961, Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Sidney James, Liz Frazer, Dennis Price, Reginald Beckwith, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 7300
Ian Carmichael and Janette Scott star as the just married couple Jack and Peggy who buy a rundown houseboat on the River Thames in writer-director C M Pennington-Richards’s mild and minor 1961 black-and-white British farce Double Bunk, laden with gentle, innocent early Sixties fun, though it is a throwback to an earlier era of British comedy.…
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Houseboat *** (1958, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Guardino, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 4543
Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s popular 1958 romantic comedy Houseboat has the inestimable advantage of teaming wonderful Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, great friends in real life, in their glorious golden days. There were two Oscar nominations: Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen (Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose) and Best Song (‘Almost In Your…
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Tony Rome **** (1967, Frank Sinatra, Jill St John, Richard Conte, Gena Rowlands, Simon Oakland, Jeffrey Lynn, Sue Lyon, Lloyd Bochner, Robert J Wilke) – Classic Movie Review 3994
The sizzling 1967 neo-noir thriller film Tony Rome finds Frank Sinatra enjoying a classic hard-boiled detective role as tough Miami private investigator Tony Rome, an ex-cop who lives on a powerboat called Straight Pass. Director Gordon M Douglas’s sizzling 1967 American neo-noir detective thriller film Tony Rome finds Frank Sinatra enjoying a classic hard-boiled Philip…
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Cape Fear **** (1991, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 177
Martin Scorsese boldly remakes J Lee Thompson’s much-admired 1962 thriller masterwork Cape Fear, based on John D MacDonald’s novel The Executioners. Scorsese has the right actor in mind in his regular star Robert De Niro, perfectly cast in Robert Mitchum’s old role as Max Cady, the ex-con sex-offender released after 14 years in jail. He…