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Posts Tagged "melodrama"
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The Man I Love *** (1947, Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 12,437
The 1947 film noir melodrama The Man I Love is based on the novel Night Shift by Maritta Wolff, and stars Ida Lupino and Robert Alda. It is Martin Scorsese’s main inspiration for his 1977 […]
Scandal Sheet * (1939, Otto Kruger, Ona Munson, Edward Norris) – Classic Movie Review 11,914
Director Nick Grinde’s 1939 Columbia Pictures black and white crime drama film Scandal Sheet is a rough-hewn, melodramatic newspaper yarn with tough scandal sheet tabloid editor Jim Stevenson (Otto Kruger) ready to kill to stop […]
A Song for Tomorrow ** (1948, Evelyn McCabe, Shaun Noble, Ralph Michael) – Classic Movie Review 11,186
Terence Fisher makes his directorial debut with the overwrought and over-acted but under-written 1948 second-feature black and white romantic drama film A Song for Tomorrow starring Evelyn McCabe, Shaun Noble and Ralph Michael. The story […]
Portrait from Life [The Girl in the Painting] *** (1949, Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 11,086
‘A psychological thriller, a captivating mystery, a tender love story – all brilliantly COMBINED INTO ONE EXCITING MOTION PICTURE’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1949 British black and white mystery romantic drama Portrait from Life [The Girl […]
Gambling Ship ** (1933, Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton, Roscoe Karns, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 10,402
Directors Louis J Gasnier and Max Marcin’s slightly soggy 1933 mob tale Gambling Ship stars Cary Grant in one of his least known movies as retired gambling boss Ace Corbin, who is caught between warring […]
Return to Peyton Place *** (1961, Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 8929
Director José Ferrer’s attractively campy 1961 romantic drama follow-up Return to Peyton Place begins where Peyton Place left off. Eleanor Parker (as Connie Rossi) and Mary Astor (as a selfish mother, Mrs Roberta Carter) enliven […]
Enchantment *** (1948, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8882
‘Just About the Most Wonderful Love Story Ever Filmed!’ Director Irving Reis’s 1948 film Enchantment is a fairly enchanting, well-crafted, plushly produced little romantic melodrama, based on Rumer Godden’s novel Take Three Tenses, about a […]