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Here Come the Huggetts *** (1948, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison Jane Hylton, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, David Tomlinson, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6977

Here Come the Huggetts is the movie return of the Huggett family, first on screen in Holiday Camp (1947), and this time they are having their first phone installed, while dad is busy with his job as a factory foreman […]

Apr, 29

Daisy Miller ** (1974, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6913

Cybill Shepherd stars as the Henry James heroine Daisy Miller in producer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s classy and sumptuous period romantic comedy drama of manners. If it has its charms, certainly visually, it can nevertheless still seem […]

Apr, 11

Love, Simon **** (2018, Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel) – Movie Review

‘Dear Moviegoers, Please form a line at concessions. It doesn’t have to be straight. Love, Simon.’ Here’s to you, Mr Robinson. Can a whole movie hang on its hero’s smile and charm? Yes, apparently it can. Nick […]

Mar, 30

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday [Inspector Hornleigh on Vacation] **** (1939, Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers) – Classic Movie Review 6569

Following Inspector Hornleigh (1938), the second in the series of three films has a screenplay by comedy thriller experts Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (with J O C Orton), who affectionately and rightly called the series […]

Jan, 16

Angi Vera **** (1979, Vera Pap, Erzsi Pásztor, Éva Szabó) – Classic Movie Review 6185

Co-writer/ director Pál Gábor attacks the Hungarian government of the day in his heartfelt tale of the rebellious young woman Vera (Veronika Papp) who tries to survive and prosper in the Stalin-era Hungary of 1948. Vera […]

Nov, 03

Edward, My Son **** (1949, Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 6167

Director George Cukor’s compelling, well-acted 1949 film version of Robert Morley and Noel Langley’s Broadway stage play teams Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr, who was Oscar nominated as Best Actress for the first of six times. […]

Oct, 31

Arrest Bulldog Drummond *** (1939, John Howard, Heather Angel, H B Warner, Reginald Denny, E E Clive, Jean Fenwick, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6135

Director James P Hogan’s 1939 Paramount Pictures B-movie series crime thriller Arrest Bulldog Drummond is a modest but engaging enough Bulldog Drummond series entry, the sixth in the franchise. John Howard stars as Captain Hugh […]

Oct, 24

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