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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones *** (1964, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames) – Classic Movie Review 11,785

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1964 hit American science-fiction comedy film The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is Walt Disney Productions’ better prequel to The Monkey’s Uncle (made the following year). Tommy Kirk is pleasing as the Midvale […]

Dec, 12

Tortilla Soup *** (2001, Hector Elizondo, Elizabeth Peña, Jaqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Raquel Welch) – Classic Movie Review 10,759

Director Maria Ripoli’s 2001 romantic comedy drama Tortilla Soup stars Hector Elizondo, who is first rate as retired master chef Martin Naranjo, a cooking-buff Mexican-American widower, living with his three daughters Leticia, Carmen and Maribel […]

Jan, 06

Shopworn *** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Clara Blandick) – Classic Movie Review 8449

Director Nick [Nicholas] Grinde’s 1932 drama Shopworn is a typical early Thirties pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck vehicle, both fiery and lusty, in which she plays Kitty Lane, a young, poor, struggling waitress driven to a Reformatory […]

May, 09

These Glamour Girls ** (1939, Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise) – Classic Movie Review 7801

Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1939 romantic comedy drama These Glamour Girls highlights class difference when a dance hall hostess girl (Lana Turner) from the wrong side of the tracks is casually invited by a drunken rich young […]

Nov, 18

Aparajito ***** (1956, Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Karuna Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Kamala Adhikari) – Classic Movie Review 7739

Writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s 1956 Indian masterpiece Aparajito [The Unvanquished] is the wonderfully touching middle episode in Ray’s majestic epic family drama the Apu trilogy, which takes the saga from the hero’s infancy of Pather Panchali […]

Nov, 02

The Pursuit of Happiness **½ (1971, Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein, Ruth White, E G Marshall, Arthur Hill) – Classic Movie Review 4943

‘I don’t want to run anymore…’ Michael Sarrazin stars in the 1971 crime drama The Pursuit of Happiness as a radical young college student, William Popper, who is jailed for his part in a road accident in […]

Jan, 26

Warlock III: The End of Innocence * (1999, Bruce Payne, Ashley Laurence, Paul Francis, Angel Boris) – Classic Movie Review 4414

Co-writer/ director Eric Freiser’s unwelcome 1999 second sequel to the 1989 chiller Warlock and its 1993 follow-up Warlock: The Armageddon is an ineptly and incompetently handled let-down. It regurgitates the haunted house chiller clichés to […]

Sep, 26

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