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Machine-Gun Kelly *** (1958, Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam) – Classic Movie Review 11,023
‘Without His Gun He Was Naked Yellow!’ Director Roger Corman’s excellent low-budget 1958 black and white film noir gangster crime thriller Machine-Gun Kelly chronicles the criminal activities of the real-life George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly. It […]
Family Life **** (1971, Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave) Classic Movie Review 10,663
Director Ken Loach’s extremely skilled and acute, if depressing 1971 British drama Family Life is the film version of David Mercer’s TV play In Two Minds about a 19-year old London girl (Sandy Ratcliff) driven […]
Love on the Dole **** (1941, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Joyce Howard, Frank Cellier, Geoffrey Hibbert, Frank Pettingell, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 7010
Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]
The Purchase Price ** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 6723
‘She took another woman’s place on her wedding night..!’ Well, that does sound interesting, doesn’t it? Director William A Wellman 1932 pre-Code American drama is adapted from the novel The Mud Lark by Arthur Stringer, with a screenplay by Robert Lord, and stars Barbara […]
My Man Godfrey ***** (1936, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Gail Patrick, Mischa Auer, Franklin Pangborn, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 6315
Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Gregory La Cava’s wonderful, totally spiffing 1936 classic screwball comedy My Man Godfrey stars William Powell as the Great Depression down-on-his-luck socialite Godfrey, who is taken on as gentleman-butler by a wacky […]
Places in the Heart **** (1984, Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 5126
Writer-director Robert Benton’s 1984 US Deep South drama was a triumph for both him and his star Sally Field, who won her second Best Actress Oscar for her typically spunky performance as Edna Spalding, the sheriff’s […]
Julieta ***½ (2016, Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Michelle Jenner, Rossy de Palma) – Movie Review
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s admirable 2016 film is a polished and provocative melodrama based on three short stories written by the Canadian author and 2013 Nobel laureate, Alice Munro. It is, surprisingly only his 20th movie in a […]