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Prince of Players ** (1955, Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Le Gallienne) – Classic Movie Review 12,029

When Prince of Players (1955) flopped, director Philip Dunne opined: ‘It was too larded with Shakespeare.’ But star Richard Burton blamed studio boss Darryl F Zanuck and his hacks for ‘murdering’ the script.  Producer-director Philip […]

Mar, 27

This Is Elvis *** (1981, Elvis Presley, David Scott, Paul Boensch III, Dana MacKay, Johnny Harra) – Classic Movie Review 10,909

The 1981 musical biographical documentary This Is Elvis is an intimate, lovingly handled cinema feature biopic of the King, some of it re-enacted as dramatisations but most of it archive footage of home movies, TV […]

Feb, 13

Too Much, Too Soon *** (1958, Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,364

The 1958 biopic Too Much, Too Soon tells the tragic true story of actress Diana Barrymore (played by Dorothy Malone), who travels to Hollywood to look after her boozing actor dad John Barrymore (played by […]

Sep, 29

The Hard Way ** (1991, Michael J Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang) – Classic Movie Review 10,212

Director John Badham ‘s contrived 1991 The Hard Way stars Michael J Fox, playing famous Hollywood action star actor Nick Lang, who joins the police to see life as it really is, and joins forces […]

Aug, 22

Dancing in the Dark *** (1949, William Powell, Mark Stevens, Betsy Drake, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 9826

Director Irving Reis’s often vivacious, always appealing 1949 Technicolor musical comedy Dancing in the Dark is enlivened by William Powell’s polished performance as Emery Slade, a former silent star employed by studio boss Melville Crossman […]

May, 26

The Trouble with Girls ** (1969, Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 9574

Elvis Presley gets an acting role as Chautauqua travelling show manager Walter Hale, in director Peter Tewksbury’s 1969 The Trouble with Girls, a tale of a 1920s educational and entertainment travelling tent show, in which […]

Mar, 29

Noises Off… ** (1992, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, Mark Linn-Baker, John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 8889

Writer Michael Frayn’s hilarious West End and Broadway stage farce about the disasters that befall an inept travelling repertory theatre company putting on an English sex farce show (Nothing On) becomes director Peter Bogdanovich’s stagey, […]

Sep, 09

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