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Posts Tagged "1930s"

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The Danish Girl **** (2015, Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw) – Movie Review

Director Tom Hooper’s 2015 drama is an excellent, beautifully crafted movie with two brilliant, award-worthy performances by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and something important to say.  It has four Oscar nominations. It’s based on a true […]

Dec, 18

I Capture the Castle ** (2002, Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Bill Nighy, Tara Fitzgerald, Henry Cavill, Henry Thomas, Marc Blucas) – Classic Movie Review 3009

Alas, Dodie Smith’s distinguished novel makes a disappointing, bloodless love story and coming-of-age movie, set in England in the Thirties. Romola Garai stars as young gel, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, in and out of love against […]

Oct, 24

Pocketful of Miracles *** (1961, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O’Connell, Peter Falk, Thomas Mitchell, Ann-Margret) – Classic Movie Review 2744

For his final movie Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, director Frank Capra remakes his 1933 hit Lady for a Day, this time casting Glenn Ford as superstitious bootlegger mobster Dave the Dude and Bette Davis as […]

Jul, 27

Satan Met a Lady *** (1936, Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Marie Wilson, Arthur Treacher, Winifred Shaw, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2466

  When Warner Bros tried to re-release its pre-Code 1931 film of The Maltese Falcon early in 1936, the Production Code Office was censoring movies and it refused approval due to the film’s supposedly ‘lewd’ content. So, with censorship […]

May, 09

Monsieur Verdoux **** (1947, Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley, Marilyn Nash, Mady Correll) – Classic Movie Review 2409

Orson Welles approached Charles Chaplin with the idea of Chaplin starring in a film based on the celebrated French murderer, Bluebeard Henri Landru. Chaplin dropped out of Welles’s project but soon thought the story would […]

Apr, 19

Funny Lady **** (1975, Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif) – Classic Movie Review 2271

Director Herbert Ross’s entertaining but less enjoyable 1975 sequel to Funny Girl has with the inestimable benefit of Barbra Streisand still enjoying herself as singer Fanny Brice, who this time marries the showman Billy Rose (James Caan) and a stormy […]

Mar, 16

Another Country **** (1984, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Anna Massey, Rupert Wainwright, Betsy Brantley, Cary Elwes) – Classic Movie Review 2.148

Playwright/ screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning 1981 London West End theatre hit gay stage play Another Country happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. […]

Feb, 02

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