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Up in Arms *** (1944, Danny Kaye, Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore) – Classic Movie Review 8563

Director Elliott Nugent’s 1944 Up in Arms is a remake by The Samuel Goldwyn Company of Eddie Cantor’s 1930 hit Whoopee! this time starring Danny Kaye in his cinema feature film début (after four shorts […]

Jun, 07

Whoopee! **** (1930, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford, Spencer Charters, Albert Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 8562

Director Thornton Freeland’s 1930 early Technicolor musical Whoopee! showcases one of Eddie Cantor’s quintessential performances based on his hit Ziegfeld Broadway show as the hypochondriac shy guy Henry Williams, who makes romantic whoopee at a […]

Jun, 07

Innerspace **** (1987, Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 6598

Director Joe Dante’s good-looking 1987 fantasy favourite stars Dennis Quaid as US Navy pilot Lieutenant Tuck Pendleton, who is shrunk and injected by mistake into the body of wimpish grocer’s assistant Jack Putter (Martin Short). […]

Jan, 24

Gold Diggers of 1937 **** (1936, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Osgood Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 5894

Keeping to the established formula, obviously there are more people putting on a show – this time insurance salesmen – in the fourth Gold Diggers film, with Busby Berkeley this time credited only as the […]

Aug, 10

The Woman in White **** (1948, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young, Alexis Smith, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2175

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]

Feb, 13

Hannah and her Sisters ***** (1986, Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Barbara Hershey, Max von Sydow, Sam Waterston, Carrie Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 1796

Writer-director Woody Allen’s triple-Oscar-winning 1986 crowd-pleaser Hannah and her Sisters is one of his best and most enduring movies. Some even say it is his finest work. Allen’s then partner Mia Farrow stars as famous […]

Nov, 02

Send Me No Flowers *** (1964, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall) – Classic Movie Review 1719

Director Norman Jewison’s perky and profitable 1964 comedy pairs Rock Hudson and Doris Day for the third and last time in their way too-short series of hit romantic comedy movies. Hudson plays a hypochondriac called […]

Sep, 29

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