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Straight Talk ** (1992, Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 6380

Director Barnet Kellman’s 1992 film is a good-natured comedy with a typically spunky performance by Dolly Parton as Shirlee, a small town spouter of home truths, who gets a job as a hit Chicago radio talk […]

Dec, 09

Rooster Cogburn *** (1975, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 6271

John Wayne re-creates his Oscar-winning one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster J Cogburn act from True Grit (1969) and makes like he is Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951) romancing the one and only Hepburn as feisty spinster […]

Nov, 19

Nightmare Alley **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6128

Director Edmund Goulding’s haunting 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nightmare Alley is based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Tyrone Power as Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who becomes a carnival barker […]

Oct, 23

Black Angel **** (1946, Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 5518

Director Roy William Neill’s complex, stylish, satisfying top-drawer 1946 film noir mystery thriller Black Angel is securely based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich (aka William Irish). June Vincent stars as nightclub singer Catherine Bennett who […]

May, 29

I’ll Cry Tomorrow **** (1955, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor, Ray Danton) – Classic Movie Review 5492

I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955) is Susan Hayward’s fourth Oscar nomination, playing Lillian Roth, the real-life Thirties musical star who turns to the bottle and attempts suicide. Director Daniel Mann’s 1955 movie I’ll Cry Tomorrow provides […]

May, 24

Colossal * (2016, Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Dan Stevens, Tim Blake Nelson) – Movie Review

Anne Hathaway stars as the hard-drinking, out-of-work writer Gloria, who is dumped and kicked out of his apartment by her unsympathetic English boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens), who has had enough of her drinking and forgetfulness. […]

May, 21

As You Desire Me *** (1932, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 5320

Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1932 romantic drama stars a ravishing bleached-blonde Greta Garbo as alluring, alcoholic Budapest bar entertainer Zara. She is also an amnesiac, who has been carrying on with a novelist (Erich von Stroheim), […]

Apr, 19

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