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The Duke Wore Jeans ** (1958, Tommy Steele, June Laverick, Michael Medwin, Alan Wheatley, Eric Pohlmann, Noel Hood) – Classic Movie Review 11,220

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1958 black and white musical comedy The Duke Wore Jeans is produced by Peter Rogers, is written by Norman Hudis, and stars Tommy Steele and June Laverick. The Carry On writer-producer-director team […]

May, 18

Six-Five Special *** (1958, Lonnie Donegan, Dickie Valentine, Jim Dale, Petula Clark, John Barry, Dickie Valentine, Joan Regan) – Classic Movie Review 9910

Director Alfred Shaughnessy’s 1958 pop musical Six-Five Special [Calling All Cats] features Petula Clark, Lonnie Donegan, Cleo Laine, Johnny Dankworth, Jim Dale, John Barry, Dickie Valentine, Joan Regan and Russ Hamilton among many others. The […]

Jun, 14

Scandalous (1984, Robert Hays, Pamela Stephenson, John Gielgud, M Emmet Walsh, Jim Dale, Ron Travis) – Classic Movie Review 9882

‘Sir John Gielgud’s a Japanese spy… a down-and-out drunk… a wealthy aristocrat and a grandfather punk! Pamela Stephenson’s classy, she’s brassy… a French maid who mixes seduction with deduction.’ Director Rob Cohen’s 1984 Scandalous is […]

Jun, 09

Rock Rock Rock! ** (1956, Tuesday Weld, Teddy Randazzo, Alan Freed, Frankie Lymon, Chuck Berry) – Classic Movie Review 9866

Director Will Price’s 1956 film Rock Rock Rock! stars little Tuesday Weld (only 13 in her screen début) in this thinly and poorly plotted but great sounding Fifties rock ‘n’ roll music nostalgia extravaganza. When […]

Jun, 05

Yesterday ** (2019, Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ed Sheeran, Sarah Lancashire, Alexander Arnold) – Movie Review

Himesh Patel finds himself battling a charmless loser fraudster of a character in director Danny Boyle’s fantasy musical romcom Yesterday (2019). It is really hard to make former teacher, struggling singer songwriter Jack Malik appealing […]

Jun, 11

Imagine *** (1972, John Lennon, Yoko Ono) – Classic Movie Review 7597

Writer-producer-director-editor-stars John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s surreal 1972 music film and pseudo-documentary Imagine is poignant home movie footage of the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from Lennon’s historic Imagine album and Yoko’s […]

Sep, 18

Stardust *** (1974, David Essex, Adam Faith, Marty Wilde, Keith Moon, Edd Byrnes) – Classic Movie Review 5452

Director Michael Apted’s popular 1974 British drama is the sequel to 1973’s hit That’ll Be the Day and again stars David Essex as Jim MacLaine in returning writer Ray Connolly’s effective tale of the rise and […]

May, 14

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