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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 […]
Writer-director Charles Eastman’s 1973 American drama film The All-American Boy stars Jon Voight as Vic Bealer, a moody young boxer from a small town in Texas, whizzed to success and worried about tomorrow. Known by […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1935 comedy drama The Irish in Us is based on a story by Frank Orsatti about an Irish family, and stars James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Mary Gordon, Frank McHugh […]
Director Michael Ritchie’s 1992 Midnight Sting [Diggstown] stars James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a conman fresh out of jail who gets middle-aged prize-fighter ‘Honey’ Roy Palmer (Louis Gossett Jr) to help him win a bet […]
Director Richard Loncraine’s 1982 film The Missionary stars, and is written and produced by, Michael Palin, and finds room for a treasure trove of Brit performers. Palin’s The Missionary is a fairly funny comedy, in […]
Director Arthur Lubin’s 1941 wartime services comedy Buck Privates [Rookies] stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in their first starring madcap nonsense, in which they play sidewalk salesmen Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown, who enlist […]
Director André de Toth’s 1957 Monkey on My Back is a downbeat but compelling biopic about the rise and fall of champion boxer, World War Two war hero and morphine addict Barney Ross. It is […]