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An untrained Rugby Sevens team, boosted by the alluring Hazel Scott (played by Samantha Janus, aka Samantha Womack), have to get in shape to try to defeat the The Cobblers Arms reigning champions and win […]
Director René Clair’s enchanting, exquisitely handled pre-World War One romantic comedy-drama Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] (1955), haunted with tragic emotions, is set in a French provincial garrison town. There Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne […]
Jacqueline Bisset heads writer-director Paul Bartel’s 1989 sex comedy Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills as Clare Lipkin, a soap star trying to make a comeback after the death of her husband. Meanwhile, […]
Director Irving Cummings Jr’s 1951 RKO Radio Pictures black and white musical comedy stars the formidable trio of Jane Russell, Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra, and is based on a story by Leo Rosten, with a screenplay by by Leo […]
Director Ralph Levy’s original 1964 comedy Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando as a pair of upstaging rival French Riviera gigolo conmen is now known better as the basis for its 1988 remake […]
Director Frank Oz’s delicious 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels stars a perfect team in Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly. Caine plays a suave Englishman named Lawrence Jamieson who preys on wealthy widows by posing […]
Pygmalion? It was one of Shaw’s. And he won an Oscar! Directors Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s 1938 British version of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion about the English speech-study professor who plots to […]