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Merrily We Go to Hell [Merrily We Go to ____] *** (1932, Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 11,279

Director Dorothy Arzner’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white pre-Code era comedy drama Merrily We Go To Hell stars Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Florence Burton, Esther Howard, Kent Taylor and Cary […]

Jun, 07

Adventure Island ** (1947, Rory Calhoun, Rhonda Fleming, Paul Kelly, John Abbott, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 10,538

Director Sam Newfield’s 1947 lower-budget action film Adventure Island gives Rhonda Fleming her first leading role. Made by Pine-Thomas Productions for release by Paramount Pictures, it is shot in the two-color Cinecolor process (or ‘gorgeous […]

Nov, 14

Postcards from the Edge **** (1990, Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 10,245

Director Mike Nichols’s 1990 celebrity memoirs movie Postcards from the Edge finds Shirley MacLaine bravely playing an ageing, drinking, domineering Mommie Dearest-type star named Doris Mann and Meryl Streep playing her drug-abusing actress daughter, Suzanne […]

Aug, 31

No Surrender **** (1985, Michael Angelis, Avis Bunnage, James Ellis, Ray McAnally, Tom Georgeson, Bernard Hill, Joanne Whalley) – Classic Movie Review 9848

Director Peter K Smith’s 1985 film No Surrender is a tough, dark-shaded comedy from writer Alan Bleasdale, who is after a metaphor for the Irish troubles in his tale of a murky Liverpool nightclub where […]

May, 31

The Road to Glory **** (1936, Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9755

Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]

May, 12

The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] ** (1956, Van Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Roman, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 9701

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1956 The Bottom of the Bottle [Beyond the River] stars Van Johnson as a drunken escaped convict Donald Martin, convicted five years before for killing a man in self-defence in a barroom […]

May, 02

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

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