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The Root of All Evil * (1947, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie, John McCallum) – Classic Movie Review 11,859

Writer-director Brock Williams’s 1947 Gainsborough Pictures studios drama The Root of All Evil stars Phyllis Calvert, who looks unhappy, miscast in a British Joan Crawford-style role as Jeckie Farnish, getting up to dirty business to […]

Jan, 19

Lucky Me ** (1954, Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr, Nancy Walker, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 7,690

It is lucky there are Doris Day’s vigour and her sparky way with a tune, plus reliable fun from Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, in the 1954 Warner Bros musical film Lucky Me because it […]

Oct, 21

Boom Town *** (1940, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr) – Classic Movie Review 5473

The MGM studio sent in its big star guns for producer Sam Zimbalist’s rousing and entertaining 1940 romantic adventure tale of oil-drilling folk. Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy play Big John McMasters and Square John Sand, wildcatter brawling […]

May, 18

The Grass Is Greener *** (1960, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 1455

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]

Jul, 20

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