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30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia *** (1968, Dudley Moore, Eddie Foy Jr, Suzy Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 9166

The 1968 comedy film 30 is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia is a pretty funny vehicle for star Dudley Moore. Can Dud score a hit with the women and get on the stage before he’s 30?  […]

Dec, 17

Song of Love *** (1947, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker) – Classic Movie Review 8833

MGM’s stagey but handsome 1947 romantic music drama film Song of Love stars Paul Henreid as the struggling composer Robert Schumann, Katharine Hepburn as his loving wife Clara Wieck Schumann, Robert Walker struggles as composer […]

Aug, 15

Song of Scheherazade ** (1947, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Phillip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 8832

Writer-director Walter Reisch’s Universal International Pictures’ amiably soppy and campy Technicolor extravaganza Song of Scheherazade (1947) is a fictionalised biopic of the Russian composer Nikolai ‘Nicky’ Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont), who finds his muse in dancing lady […]

Aug, 15

Song of Norway ** (1970, Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad, Christina Schollin) – Classic Movie Review 7748

The 1944 Broadway hit stage show by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran, Song of Norway, is brought to the screen by producer-director Andrew L Stone in 1970 with 70 mm 6-Track Stereo, Panavision 70, De Luxe colour and […]

Nov, 03

The Magic Bow ** (1946, Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 6963

Director Bernard Knowles’s 1946 historical biographical music drama stars Stewart Granger, who unfortunately is hopelessly miscast and all at sea as the Italian violin virtuoso and composer Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), who falls for the French […]

Apr, 24

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita *** (1965, Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6823

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita is film-maker Delmer Daves’s final movie, a lively Italian-set love affair soap opera outing with ideal roles for Maureen O’Hara, Rossano Brazzi and Richard Todd, who eat them up […]

Mar, 18

The Constant Nymph **** (1943, Charles Boyer Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre, Eduardo Ciannelli, Brenda Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 6810

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1943 Hollywood version of Margaret Kennedy’s bestselling novel and play (with Basil Dean) is the third movie of the piece, originally filmed in GB in 1928 with Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton, […]

Mar, 16

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