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Director Mikhail K Kalatozov’s Italian-Russian 1969 film The Red Tent [Krasnaya palatka] [La Tenda Rossa] is an engrossing adventure saga based on General Nobile’s 1928 disastrous Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia. It is packed […]
Director Gene Saks’s 1974 Mame is the way less than satisfactory movie of the all-time great Jerry Herman Broadway show, though even so it is a bit of a one-hit wonder – the title track […]
Director Lewis R Foster’s 1929 two-reeler short comedy Men O’War stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as sailors on shore leave, who meet two giggling girls (Anne Cornwall, Gloria Greer) in the park. Written and […]
‘9:00 am to 10:00 am. That important hour when financial kings of American affairs open their mail.’ Director Emmett J Flynn’s 1928 two-reeler black and white silent comedy short Early to Bed is the first […]
Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]
Michael Winner’s 1976 comedy Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood stars the adorable comedienne Madeline Kahn as struggling Twenties actress Estie Del Ruth and Bruce Dern as director Grayson Potchuk, who adopt a […]
Director Irving Cummings’s 1929 Behind That Curtain takes its place in movie history as the impossibly creaky but still intriguing first Charlie Chan film in sound. It is based on Earl Derr Biggers’s novel of […]