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Rose of Washington Square **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton) – Classic Movie Review 9726

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]

May, 07

Support Your Local Gunfighter *** (1971, James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Joan Blondell, Jack Elam, Chuck Connors, Harry Morgan, John Dehner, Henry Jones, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 6535

‘The story of a man who took the law into his own finger!’ James Garner’s smooth rogue conman hero Latigo Smith is mistaken for a well-known hired gunman when he stops off at a small […]

Jan, 08

Getting Even with Dad * (1994, Macaulay Culkin, Ted Danson, Glenne Headly) – Classic Movie Review 5771

Director Howard Deutsch’s turgid, rather bad tempered 1994 comedy with hints of a thriller plot fails to find gainful employment for child star Macaulay Culkin as motherless kid Timmy who is dumped on his estranged […]

Jul, 16

The Addams Family **** (1991, Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman) – Classic Movie Review 5686

Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 movie is a witty, often hilarious Gothic black comedy based on the Sixties TV show, in turn based on the macabre cartoons by Charles Addams, with ideal casting in Anjelica Huston, […]

Jun, 29

House of Games **** (1987, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4004

American Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet makes a clever directorial début with his teasing 1987 thriller House of Games. It stars his then wife Lindsay Crouse as control-freak psychiatrist Margaret Ford, who makes the mistake […]

Jul, 12

We’re No Angels **** (1989, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, James Russo, Ray McAnally, Demi Moore) – Classic Movie Review 3361

Talented Irish director Neil Jordan’s 1989 feature is his first American movie, a remake of director Michael Curtiz’s 1954 movie with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray Joan Bennett and Basil Rathbone. Robert De Niro and Sean Penn play small-time hoods in […]

Feb, 15

The Flim-Flam Man [One Born Every Minute] ***½ (1967, George C Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Albert Salmi, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 3,187

The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]

Dec, 27

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