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The 1952 Face to Face is an unusual, interesting, though not wholly satisfactory black and white double bill movie feature, sometimes screened separately as two short films, but when shown together billed as a Duo […]
Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1953 The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan [The Great Gilbert and Sullivan] is very jolly musical biopic entertainment, low on story, high on lovely operetta excerpts, charmingly sung and staged, attractively played […]
Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1948 British romantic comedy film Spring in Park Lane stars Anna Neagle and Wilding Michael in this incredibly popular fluff about an impoverished earl Richard (Wilding) who only pretends to be a footman, […]
Director Harold Becker turns Joseph Wambaugh’s factually based novel about a kidnapped cop Karl Hettinger (John Savage), who witnesses his partner Ian Campbell (Ted Danson)’s murder, into a distinguished inquiry into the American judicial system. […]
Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]
John Ford’s 1955 biopic The Long Gray Line is a rambling, amiable, catch-in-the-throat toast to West Point coach Marty Maher (Tyrone Power) and his 50 years at the renowned military academy. An apparently well-cast Power […]
Director Charles Walters’s pleasing 1960 MGM Metrocolor comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies pleasantly and profitably pairs Doris Day with David Niven. Jean Kerr’s bestselling book about her life with theatre critic Walter Kerr, who […]