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Ruggles of Red Gap **** (1935, Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young) – Classic Movie Review 8243
Director Leo McCarey’s 1935 Ruggles of Red Gap is a bona fide classic Thirties comedy showcasing Charles Laughton’s definitive comic turn as the quintessential English butler/ valet Marmarduke Ruggles, lost in a poker game by […]
Oliver the Eighth ** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Jack Barty) – Classic Movie Review 8186
Director Lloyd French’s 1934 comedy short Oliver the Eighth is, naturally enough, about Oliver, Oliver Hardy, that is, who answers a personal column ad to marry a wealthy widow called Mrs Fox (Mae Busch), who […]
Blind Date **** (1987, Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette) – Classic Movie Review 7760
Director Blake Edwards’s delightful and sometimes hilarious 1987 screwball romantic comedy Blind Date stars Bruce Willis as workaholic Walter Davis, who invites his brother Ted (Phil Hartman)’s wife’s cousin Nadia (Kim Basinger), a teetotaller, out […]
The Admirable Crichton [Paradise Lagoon] **** (1957, Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 7,757
Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker and Sally Ann Howes star in director Lewis Gilbert’s amusing 1957 British south seas adventure comedy romance film The Admirable Crichton, based on J M Barrie’s 1902 play. Director […]
Candleshoe *** (1977, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 6814
Director Norman Tokar’s 1977 British film for children is an amusing Disney adventure comedy, with a jolly script and a superb cast of scene-stealers. Leo McKern plays small-time crook Harry Bundage, who dupes American urchin Casey Brown […]
Murder by Death **** (1976, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Estelle Winwood) – Classic Movie Review 6788
Director Robert Moore’s clever and witty 1976 comedy parodies a number of famous detectives, with Peter Sellers indulging himself as Sidney Wang in a spoof of Charlie Chan, Peter Falk as Sam Diamond in a spoof […]
Breakfast for Two *** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6772
There is plenty of zing and sparkle, and there are lots of laughs too to be found in director Alfred Santell’s engaging, fast-paced 1937 romantic comedy, with its two stars Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall […]