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A Fine Madness *** (1966, Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg) – Classic Movie Review 8370

Director Irvin Kershner’s funny, appealingly whimsical 1966 screwball comedy A Fine Madness stars Sean Connery as a crazy New York City-based radical poet called Samson Shillitoe, and Joanne Woodward co-stars as his brash waitress wife […]

Apr, 16

The Rains of Ranchipur * (1955, Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Michael Rennie, Joan Caulfield, Eugenie Leontovich) – Classic Movie Review 8129

Director Jean Negulesco’s lumbering and uninspired 1955 The Rains of Ranchipur is a slow and slapdash retread of 1939’s The Rains Came, with the young Richard Burton all at sea, miscast in Tyrone Power’s old […]

Feb, 13

Life at the Top *** (1965, Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 7433

Director Ted Kotcheff’s modest but diverting enough 1965 drama Life at the Top is the soap-opera-style sequel to Room at the Top (1959) that, even while it entertains, misses the quality and bitter taste of the […]

Aug, 12

Block-Heads **** (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7372

Director John G Blystone’s 1938 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Block-Heads was planned as the boys’ final feature film, and it was their swan-song with their producer Hal Roach at Hal Roach Studios and […]

Jul, 29

Madame Bovary **** (1934, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Fernand Fabre, Daniel Lecourtois) – Classic Movie Review 7345

[Spoiler alert] Jean Renoir’s captivating and compelling 1934 film version of Gustave Flaubert’s classic literature novel story of how Emma Bovary (Valentine Tessier) is stifled after she marries boring Normandy doctor Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir, […]

Jul, 26

A Guide for the Married Man *** (1967, Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Linda Harrison, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 7251

Director Gene Kelly’s 1967 bedroom farce A Guide for the Married Man assembles a whole army of familiar Sixties comedy faces to illustrate the dos and don’ts of marriage, and the pluses and minuses of unfaithfulness. Walter […]

Jul, 05

Waterloo Road **** (1945, John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Jean Kent, Beatrice Varley, Alison Leggatt) – Classic Movie Review 6964

Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1945 British black and white wartime romantic drama movie Waterloo Road for Gainsborough Pictures stars John Mills as English soldier Jim Colter, who is called up to fight in World War Two. […]

Apr, 24

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