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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

Camille Claudel **** (1988, Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Alain Cuny) – Classic Movie Review 8679

The doomed love affair between the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin (Gérard Depardieu) and his student assistant Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) is exquisitely brought to life by two of the great names of Eighties French cinema […]

Jul, 06

Arsène Lupin **** (1932, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley) – Classic Movie Review 8676

Director Jack Conway has the privilege of bringing Maurice Leblanc’s famous gentleman crook Arsène Lupin to the screen for its first sound incarnation in 1932 with both Barrymore brothers in the popular MGM pre-Code mystery […]

Jul, 05

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin [Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin] **** (1957, Robert Lamoureux, Liselotte Pulver, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 8675

Director Jacques Becker’s entertaining, polished and memorable 1957 French Technicolor crime mystery film The Adventures of Arsène Lupin [Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin] stars Robert Lamoureux as the stylish gentleman crook (gentleman-cambrioleur) Arsène Lupin going about […]

Jul, 04

Pufnstuf *** (1970, Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Martha Raye, Cass Elliot) – Classic Movie Review 8664

Director Hollingsworth Morse’s 1970 family comedy adventure Pufnstuf is an adaptation for the big screen of the children’s TV series H R Pufnstuf (17 episodes, 1969-1970), which will fill many a baby boomer with nostalgia […]

Jul, 01

Wilson *** (1944, Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 8647

Opportunity knocks for Alexander Knox, who grabs it to give a careful, painstaking and impressive star turn as US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), rising from president at Princeton to governor of New Jersey to […]

Jun, 28

Little Lord Fauntleroy ** (1980, Ricky Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Connie Booth, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 8641

Director Jack Gold’s 1980 family romantic drama Little Lord Fauntleroy is well crafted and decently acted, and has its appeal, but, as a Victorian heart-tugger, it is way out of its time. It was made […]

Jun, 25

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