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Movie Movie **** (1978, George C Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Eli Wallach, Michael Kidd, Barbara Harris, Harry Hamlin, Barry Bostwick, Ann Reinking, Art Carney) – Classic Movie Review 10,675
Two 1930s film genres – boxing dramas and backstage musicals – are recreated with a mixture of affection, daft puns and delightful digs at Hollywood in director Stanley Donen’s delicious 1978 comedy Movie Movie. It […]
Too Much, Too Soon *** (1958, Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,364
The 1958 biopic Too Much, Too Soon tells the tragic true story of actress Diana Barrymore (played by Dorothy Malone), who travels to Hollywood to look after her boozing actor dad John Barrymore (played by […]
The Story of Three Loves ** (1953, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron, Moira Shearer, Pier Angeli, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 10,057
MGM’s 1953 anthology film The Story of Three Loves is a starry trio of romantic yarns linked by being told in flashback by a liner’s passengers. Directors Gottfried Reinhardt and Vincente Minnelli’s starry 1953 MGM […]
Elvis: That’s the Way It Is **** (1970, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9305
Here in Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) is Elvis Presley in regal splendour rehearsing and performing in 1970 on his first concert tour since 1957. Director Denis Sanders looks at Presley backstage, polishing […]
Noises Off… ** (1992, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, Mark Linn-Baker, John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 8889
Writer Michael Frayn’s hilarious West End and Broadway stage farce about the disasters that befall an inept travelling repertory theatre company putting on an English sex farce show (Nothing On) becomes director Peter Bogdanovich’s stagey, […]
The Comedy Man *** (1964, Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Norman Rossington, Angela Douglas, Edmund Purdom, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 7761
The 1964 British drama film The Comedy Man tells a backstage showbiz story about TV deodorant adverts finally making a star out of ageing, seedy actor Chick Byrd (Kenneth More). Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1964 British […]
99 River Street **** (1953, John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 7555
Cult director Phil Karlson’s excellent little-known 1953 film noir crime melodrama 99 River Street is a satisfying walk on the wild side that keeps up a cracking pace from start to finish, with Franz Planer’s […]