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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 James W Horne’s 1931 black and white two-reeler short comedy One Good Turn stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Depression victims Laurel and Hardy haven’t eaten for three days – ‘yesterday, today and tomorrow’ […]
Director James Parrott’s two-reeler 1930 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy short Brats is a plotless series of funny gags, with witty characterisations, clever trick photography, expert sets and a very good production. The Brats […]
‘Mr Hardy is a man of great care, caution and discretion – Mr Laurel is married too.’ ‘No man is bigger than the excuses he makes to his wife. So Be Big!’ Director James Parrott’s […]
Director Steve Miner’s 1992 sci-fi romantic drama Forever Young stars Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood, and is written by Jeffrey Abrams, now better known as J J Abrams. Gibson stars as test […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1938 Mad about Music stars Deanna Durbin as Gloria Harkinson, the sweet young girl who enlists a visiting nice chap English composer Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall) to play her pop when she is left […]
Director Peter Duffell’s 1972 England Made Me is a useful and intelligent, if slightly chilly version of Graham Greene’s fine early novel transposed to Seventies fashionable Nazi Germany from its original setting in Sweden. Michael […]