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Family Honeymoon **** (1948, Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Rita Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 10,665

Director Claude Binyon’s 1949 screwball comedy Family Honeymoon stars Claudette Colbert as widowed Katie, a new bride who brings the three kids from her previous marriage along on the honeymoon, perplexing new stepdaddy Grant Jordan […]

Dec, 13

Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War *** (2002, Pauline Collins, Peter Capaldi, John Alderton, Sheila Reid, Anna Wilson-Jones, Frank Mills) – Classic Movie Review 10,513

Director Ian Sharp’s amusing, heart-warming 2002 British comedy drama Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War is based on a 1993 novel by Vernon Coleman, and has a nice cast headed by Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter […]

Nov, 08

Doctor Bull *** (1933, Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Vera Allen) – Classic Movie Review 10,185

Director John Ford’s 1933 black and white drama Doctor Bull is a good showcase for Will Rogers, with special interest as a Ford film, in the first of a trio of their collaborations. Rogers plays […]

Aug, 16

Deep Crimson [Profundo carmesí] *** (1996, Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Rosa Furman, Sherlyn González) – Classic Movie Review 9983

Beware director Arturo Ripstein’s fascinating, dark and gruesome 1996 black comedy thriller Deep Crimson [Profundo carmesí] about the balding gigolo Nicolas Estrella (Daniel Giménez Cacho) and the overweight nurse Coral Fabre (opera singer Regina Orozco) […]

Jun, 30

Hear My Song **** (1991, Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Shirley Anne Field, Tara Fitzgerald, William Hootkins, Harold Berens, David McCallum, James Nesbitt, Brian Flanagan) – Classic Movie Review 9937

First-time director and co-writer Peter Chelsom’s 1991 Hear My Song stars Ned Beatty as infamous Irish singer Josef Locke, who is hiding in Ireland from the law, Jim Abbott (David McCallum), who want him for […]

Jun, 20

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs **** (1960, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight) – Classic Movie Review 9667

William Inge’s renowned Pulitzer prize-winning play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs transfers to the screen in Delbert Mann’s good looking but vaguely unsatisfactory, rather stagey 1960 film production, lovingly adapted by screen-writing […]

Apr, 23

Black Widow **** (1987, Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson) – Classic Movie Review 9583

Director Bob Rafelson’s excellent, steamy 1986 thriller Black Widow stars Debra Winger as a smart woman federal agent obsessively tracking down a gold-digging murderess (Theresa Russell) who marries wealthy men and then kills them to inherit […]

Apr, 01

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