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A Big Hand for the Little Lady **** (1966, Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Paul Ford, Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 9,829
Let’s give a big hand for the entertaining The Sting-style Technicolor comedy Western film A Big Hand for the Little Lady, in which a family of con merchants take on a handful of wealthy gamblers […]
Poppy **** (1936, W C Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Lynne Overman, Catherine Doucet) – Classic Movie Review 9788
Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1936 comedy Poppy finds W C Fields on hilarious form repeating his 1925 filming of his stage hit Sally of the Sawdust as carnival medicine salesman conman Professor Eustace McGargle. He […]
The Rainmaker **** (1956, Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 7175
Director Joseph Anthony’s 1956 Technicolor drama The Rainmaker provides an outstanding showcase for two great stars in Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn in this conscientious, well-crafted and appealing film of N Richard Nash’s Broadway play. […]
Man of the World ** (1931, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 6710
In 1931 the young Carole Lombard was teamed with William Powell in directors Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman’s Man of the World. And Powell and Lombard form a most alluring star team in Herman J Mankiewicz’s surprisingly mundane, and […]
Paper Moon ***** (1973, Ryan O’Neal, Tatum O’Neal, Madeline Kahn) – Classic Movie Review 2283
‘I called up Orson Welles who was in Rome and said: Hey, what do you think of this title, Paper Moon. There was a long pause and he says: That title is so good you […]
Touch **** (1997, Christopher Walken, Bridget Fonda, Skeet Ulrich, Tom Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 1324
Paul Schrader’s 1997 extraordinary black comedy drama film Touch stars Christopher Walken as a conman who sees a new way of making money when he hears of a young former Franciscan monk (Skeet Ulrich), whose […]
Brokedown Palace *** (1999, Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Daniel Lapaine) – Classic Movie Review 1157
In director Jonathan Kaplan’s excellently acted, moving and harrowing 1999 movie, lifelong American graduate friends Alice Marano (Claire Danes) and Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale) are in deep and desperate trouble when they’re arrested for smuggling […]