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Isn’t It Romantic ** (1948, Veronica Lake, Billy De Wolfe, Patric Knowles, Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 11,101

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1948 black and white Paramount film Isn’t It Romantic stars Veronica Lake as Candy Cameron, who has two sisters (Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher) and prefers conman Rick Brannon (Patric Knowles), a […]

Apr, 16

On Moonlight Bay *** (1951, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Jack Smith, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 7680

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1951 On Moonlight Bay pairs cute, clean-cut couple Doris Day and Gordon MacRae to rousing, tuneful effect. Day stars as toothsome tomboy Marjorie Winfield and MacRae plays her handsome neighbour William […]

Oct, 20

Rage at Dawn *** (1955, Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, J Carrol Naish, Mala Powers, Edgar Buchanan, Ray Teal, Myron Healey, Denver Pyle) – Classic Movie Review 6599

Director Tim Whelan’s 1955 Western stars Randolph Scott as canny Peterson Detective Agency undercover agent James Barlow, who is taken on by the Chicago cops to hoodwink and round up the rotten real-life Reno Brothers (Forrest […]

Jan, 25

Raintree County ** (1957, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 6416

A typecast Elizabeth Taylor settles in comfortably to a tailor-made role as a gorgeous Southern American belle in a showy, Oscar-nominated performance as Susanna Drake, cast opposite her favourite actor friend Montgomery Clift as John […]

Dec, 17

June Bride **** (1948, Bette Davis, Robert Montgomery, Fay Bainter, Tom Tully, Betty Lynn, Debbie Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 5,735

Bette Davis tries a useful change of pace with the 1948 film June Bride, a cute romantic comedy about a woman’s magazine editor who gets her chauvinist old flame, reporter Robert Montgomery, to help her […]

Jul, 09

Some Came Running **** (1958, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates) – Classic Movie Review 4759

There is assured acting all round by a strong cast in director Vincente Minnelli’s powerful and impressive 1958 MGM movie of James Jones’s bestseller dissecting unfulfilled lives in a small Mid-West American town in the […]

Dec, 10

Lonesome Jim *** (2005, Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan) – Classic Movie Review 4319

Based on a talented first original screenplay by James C Strouse, this is a fresh, funny and truthful-seeming dark comedy. Casey Affleck is word perfect as the Lonesome Jim of the title, a depressed 27-year-old […]

Sep, 08

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