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Stella Dallas **** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Barbara O’Neil, Anne Shirley, Tim Holt, Marjorie Main, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3176
Director King Vidor’s incomparable 1937 version of the tear-jerker soap opera tale of a warm and gutsy but slatternly lower-class woman who sacrifices herself for her daughter was previously filmed in 1925, and remade as Stella in […]
The Gay Divorcee ***** (1934, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2955
Director Mark Sandrich’s enchanting 1934 musical stars the magical duo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who are an unalloyed delight in their initial star pairing after their success together in supporting roles in Flying […]
The Palm Beach Story ***** (1942, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 2923
Writer-director Preston Sturges’s marvellous 1942 American classic stars Claudette Colbert as a wife called Gerry Jeffers, who runs away from penniless inventor husband Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and takes off for Florida’s Palm Beach. There she soon […]
Anna Karenina * (1997, Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirschner, James Fox, Fiona Shaw, Danny Huston, Phyllida Law) – Classic Movie Review 2916
Writer-director Bernard Rose’s appallingly misjudged 1997 British film version of Leo Tolstoy’s novel is totally scuppered by the miscasting of the central duo of Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean as the married 19th-century Russian aristocrat […]
Anna Karenina ***** (1935, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O’Sullivan, May Robson, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny) – Classic Movie Review 2914
Producer David O Selznick and director Clarence Brown work over Leo Tolstoy’s great 1877 novel as a 1935 big studio movie vehicle for the great Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina, the young wife of the […]
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ***** (1966, David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 2911
Director Karel Reisz’s modishly trendy razzle-dazzle 1966 comedy Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment is another pillar of the Swinging Sixties British New Wave cinema. It’s a lovely, funny, appealing film with irrepressible zest and […]
The Great Lie **** (1941, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 2736
Director Edmund Goulding’s polished 1941 drama The Great Lie is another of the outstanding movies from the prime of Bette Davis, then reigning queen of the Warner Bros studio. The Great Lie is a great […]