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Splendor *** (1935, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Helen Westley, Katharine Alexander, David Niven, Paul Cavanagh, Billie Burke, Ruth Weston) – Classic Movie Review 8887

Director Elliott Nugent’s 1935 black and white romantic comedy drama Splendor is a forgotten but not negligible yarn from the Samuel Goldwyn Company studios about Brighton Lorrimore (Joel McCrea) upsetting his fraught, cash-strapped family, especially […]

Sep, 08

The Amorous Prawn [The Amorous Mr Prawn] *** (1962, Dennis Price, Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Derek Nimmo, Liz Fraser, Robert Beatty, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 8790

Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1962 British comedy The Amorous Prawn has the huge advantage of entertaining people to perform it, and they make much of this film version of the director’s gently farcical stage hit. Joan […]

Aug, 03

Our Town **** (1940, Frank Craven, William Holden, Martha Scott, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 8785

Director Sam Wood’s 1940 nostalgic romantic drama Our Town is a smashing vintage movie. Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play (now a recognized classic of American theatre) about a pre-World War One New Hampshire […]

Aug, 01

The Deep Blue Sea *** (1955, Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8760

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1955 romantic drama The Deep Blue Sea is a stage-bound but generally successful and involving version of the Terence Rattigan play about the romance of a carefree, drunken wartime RAF fighter pilot […]

Jul, 26

The Dock Brief [Trial and Error] *** (1962, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid, David Lodge, Frank Pettingell) – Classic Movie Review 8731

John Mortimer’s witty one-act radio, then theatre play about an accused man named Fowle (Richard Attenborough), who is freed of murdering his wife because of his bungling barrister Morgenhall (Peter Sellers), makes a so-so film […]

Jul, 18

Zaza *** (1938, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr) – Classic Movie Review 8715

Director George Cukor’s 1938 musical romantic drama Zaza stars Claudette Colbert, who puts new life into the old theatrical workhorse story about the 1900s French vaudeville singer Zaza (Colbert) who has a sad love affair […]

Jul, 16

The Chalk Garden **** (1964, Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 8653

Edith Evans triumphs as old lady Mrs St Maugham, and the witty 1964 British drama film The Chalk Garden is an affecting and appealing experience.  Director Ronald Neame’s gloomy but witty 1964 British drama The […]

Jun, 29

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