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Co-writer/ producer/ director Leo McCarey’s unruly 1958 comedy stars Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward together as Harry and Grace Bannerman, a married couple threatened by their sexy young sexy neighbour Angela Hoffa (Joan Collins) […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1956 biopic drama is the double-Oscar-winning Fifties fight movie classic that turned the 31-year-old Paul Newman into a star. It is one of the great boxing movies. Audiences certainly liked Newman up […]
Director Peter Hyams’s 1988 The Presidio is routine action stuff, though the movie is sparked up by Sean Connery’s gruffly winning performance and some lively chases. But just what happened to Larry Ferguson screenplay? It […]
Director Clarence Brown’s entertaining 1941 MGM wartime comedy crime adventure stars a great vintage line-up in Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Reginald Owen and Jessie Ralph. Gable plays jewel thief Gerald Meldrick and Russell plays sophisticated […]
The watchable 1948 wartime romantic film Homecoming finds ideally paired MGM superstars Clark Gable and Lana Turner in unusual roles for them in their third movie together. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s trite 1948 wartime romance film […]
Writer-producer-director Robert Rossen’s Spanish-filmed 1956 historical epic of Alexander the Great [Alexander III of Macedon] (356-323 BC) is a clever and thoughtful movie. The young Richard Burton proves a good choice as the Greek warrior […]
The team behind 1979’s Meatballs reconvene for director Ivan Reitman’s follow-up military spoof comedy in 1981. The results are pretty much the same. It is equally amiable, broad and fairly crass. Bill Murray and Harold […]