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Flight of the Navigator (1986) is notable as one of the first Hollywood films to use extensive CGI effects, and as one of the first to feature an entirely electronic score. Director Randal Kleiser’s 1986 […]
Precocious Lana Turner, then MGM’s new teenage sensation, aged 18 and making the most of her first starring role, dances and studies her way to success as Patty Marlow, the ambitious dancing co-ed of the […]
Joan Crawford appears and Frank Capra helped to write director Harry Edwards’s 1926 silent comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp for star Harry Langdon, who plays the humble, lowly Harry Logan, who takes part in a $25,000 […]
Sweet character actors Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride get their chance for stardom in the 1949 American comedy film Ma and Pa Kettle when two of the characters from Betty MacDonald’s 1947 semi-fictional memoir book […]
Director John Paddy Carstairs’s spry though obviously dated 1952 British Technicolor film Made in Heaven is an almost heavenly Fifties comedy about the annual contest in the historic English market town of Dunmow for married couples […]
Co-writer/ director James Bridges’s unfairly neglected 1980 drama ends up as a country music companion piece to Saturday Night Fever, made for discerning adults. It is a thoughtful, intelligent and entertaining vehicle for John Travolta […]
Despite the teasing, possibly sexy title, Man’s Favorite Sport turns out to be fishing – of course! – in producer-director Howard Hawks’s thin but likeable 1964 comedy. Rock Hudson stars as Roger Willoughby, a fishing tackle […]