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The Lady Is Willing *** (1942, Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon, Stanley Ridges, Arline Judge) – Classic Movie Review 9619

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1942 The Lady Is Willing is a frothy, mostly appealing, Forties-period romantic comedy in which an eccentric Broadway showgirl, Elizabeth Madden (the incomparable Marlene Dietrich effectively cast against type), is so desperate […]

Apr, 08

Arthur 2: On the Rocks ** (1988, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9391

Director Bud Yorkin films an inferior sequel to the 1981 hit Arthur in the 1988 comedy Arthur 2: On the Rocks, with all three stars from the original returning, but not the original writer-director Steve […]

Feb, 15

Torch Singer ** (1933, Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 8451

Director Alexander Hall’s creaky 1933 antique drama Torch Singer [Broadway Singer] stars Claudette Colbert as the torch singer of the title, who pleasantly trills some songs by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robbins (lyrics), among […]

May, 09

That Certain Feeling * (1956, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8362

Writer-producer-directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank’s long forgotten 1956 Technicolor comedy That Certain Feeling at least has the great benefit of starring Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders and Pearl Bailey. Hope plays Francis […]

Apr, 14

The Fox and the Hound ** (1981, Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8193

Directors Ted Berman, Richard Rich and Art Stevens’s 1981 animated feature The Fox and the Hound is a mild Walt Disney cartoon about a fox’s friendship with a hunting dog, whose owner finds this unnatural, so […]

Mar, 03

The Return *** (2018, Karoline Sofie Lee, Thomas Hwan) – Movie Review

Karoline Sofie Lee and Thomas Hwan play two Danish-Korean adoptees in their early thirties, who leave Denmark and return for the first time to Korea, where they were born and given up for adoption, for […]

Nov, 15

Three Identical Strangers **** (2018, Eddy Galland, David Kellman, Robert Shafran) – Movie Review

Director Tim Wardle’s documentary biography Three Identical Strangers (2018) tells a fascinating, well-researched investigative story, as a happy accidental encounter in 1980 New York leading to a uniting of adult identical triplets separated at birth turns […]

Nov, 06

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