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Charlie Chan at the Olympics *** (1937, Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9037

All the team are on top form in director H Bruce Humberstone’s droll 1937 episode Charlie Chan at the Olympics, set in pre-World War Two Berlin and including newsreel shots of the 1936 Olympic Games, […]

Oct, 31

Charlie Chan at the Circus ** (1936, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, John McGuire, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford) – Movie Review 9036

Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Circus is a middling, though still entertaining enough episode, in which Warner Oland stars as Chan, who probes a circus killing, along with the help […]

Oct, 31

Tom & Viv *** (1994, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton, Nickolas Grace) – Classic Movie Review 9027

Director Brian Gilbert’s 1994 British biographical romantic drama Tom & Viv tells the extraordinary story of the doomed marriage of American poet Tom Eliot [T S Eliot] (Willem Dafoe) and the English aristocrat Vivienne Haigh-Wood […]

Oct, 29

Lucky Lady * (1975, Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Michael Hordern, Geoffrey Lewis, Robby Benson, John Hillerman)

Director Stanley Donen’s 1975 musical comedy crime drama Lucky Lady is unlucky for everybody. It is a glossy, vastly costly but rather aimless and (at the box-office of the day) total flop romp about 1930s Prohibition […]

Oct, 02

Our Wife **** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Babe London, Ben Turpin) – Classic Movie Review 8781

‘Mr Hardy was making big preparations to get married – Mr Laurel was taking a bath too.‘ Director James W Horne’s 1931 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Our Wife is a consistently funny and […]

Jul, 31

All Creatures Great and Small *** (1975, Simon Ward, Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Harrow, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8698

Fans of the BBC TV series will be surprised to find All Creatures Great and Small has a different cast for the 1975 film version, with Simon Ward as nice young assistant vet James Herriot, […]

Jul, 12

Charlie Chan in Paris *** (1935, Warner Oland, Mary Brian, Thomas Beck, Erik Rhodes, John Miljan, Keye Luke) Classic Movie Review 8693

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1935 thriller Charlie Chan in Paris is the seventh film produced by the Fox Film Corporation with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. ‘Hasty conclusion like gunpowder,’ says Chan, ‘tendency to explode.’ Charlie goes to Paris […]

Jul, 11

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