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The Secret Life of an American Wife*** (1968, Walter Matthau, Anne Jackson, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 7746
Writer-director George Axelrod’s 1968 The Secret Life of an American Wife is a pleasing little satirical comedy-drama, sending up the middle-aged, middle-class American mores of the time. Anne Jackson stars as frustrated housewife Victoria Layton, who […]
My Dream Is Yours *** (1949, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7688
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1949 musical comedy My Dream Is Yours finds Doris Day on vivacious form as single mother Martha Gibson, a band singer struggling to become a radio star, and Jack Carson bright and breezy as […]
The Fighting Seabees **** (1944, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7173
In the last year of his five-year contract with Republic Pictures signed just before the success of 1939’s Stagecoach, John Wayne stars as Wedge Donovan in The Fighting Seabees, one of the studio’s typical B-movie wartime […]
Seven Sinners **** (1940, Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Oskar Homolka, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7167
Director Tay Garnett’s fine 1940 black and white adventure comedy knockabout entertainment Seven Sinners expertly mixes romance and brawls, though the scintillating cast is the main reason to watch. Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne show […]
Fat Man and Little Boy [Shadow Makers] ** (1989, Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia) – Classic Movie Review 7023
Director Roland Joffe (The Mission) tackles a big subject of the making of atomic bombs in his 1989 film drama and comes a cropper. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie R Groves who in 1942 heads […]
The Only Game in Town *** (1970, Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Charles Braswell) – Classic Movie Review 6953
‘Dice was his vice. Men hers.’ In his last film, distinguished director George Stevens abandoned epic statements for a small-scale story, based on Frank D Gilroy’s play, with a screenplay written by Frank D Gilroy. […]
Lured [Personal Column] **** (1947, Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 5,516
Douglas Sirk’s 1947 film noir serial killer thriller Lured really is a bit of a little gem. It is quite creepy – Lucille Ball as a dancer in danger and lots of old guys, among […]