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My Brother Talks to Horses *** (1947, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 11,263

MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]

Jun, 02

The Devil Makes Three ** (1952, Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 10,603

Director Andrew Marton’s 1952 MGM black and white thriller The Devil Makes Three stars Gene Kelly, who enjoys a straight acting role as American pilot Captain Jeff Eliot, a US serviceman who stumbles across a […]

Nov, 29

The Best Things in Life Are Free *** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9913

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths […]

Jun, 15

Ooh… You Are Awful [Get Charlie Tully] *** (1972, Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 9763

Dick Emery’s camp, lowbrow television act transfers to the movies amusingly and successfully in Cliff Owen’s 1972 British comedy Ooh… You Are Awful [Get Charlie Tully]. The plot, about a con man Charlie Tully (Emery) […]

May, 13

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990, Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick) – Classic Movie Review 9328

Director Dirk Campbell’s 1990 British comedy horror movie I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle is a ridiculous vampire spoof with a plot about a possessed Norton motorcycle, bought by Birmingham bike courier Noddy (Neil Morrissey). It […]

Jan, 31

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx *** (1970, Gene Wilder, Margot Kidder, Eileen Colgan) – Classic Movie Review 8096

Director Waris Hussein’s 1970 comedy Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx stars the late lamented comedy genius Gene Wilder as an Irish dung-collector called Quackser, who crosses all kinds of barriers to romance […]

Feb, 05

It Started in Naples *** (1960, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 6920

The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]

Apr, 14

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