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Posts Tagged "elephant"

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Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention **** (2010, voice of Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 5565

Peter Sallis’s last role as Wallace was in Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention in 2010, the same year he played Norman ‘Cleggy’ Clegg in the final episode of TV’s Last of the Summer Wine, being the only […]

Jun, 09

Jupiter’s Darling *** (1954, Esther Williams, Howard Keel, George Sanders, Marge Champion, Gower Champion) – Classic Movie Review 5140

‘In 216 BC, Hannibal the Barbarian marched on Rome. The history of this great march has always been confused. This picture will do nothing to clear it up.’ High-spirited Esther Williams and Howard Keel are […]

Mar, 11

The Tall Guy **** (1989, Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson) – Classic Movie Review 3583

Comedian Mel Smith makes his début as director on this naughty but nice 1989 British romantic comedy starring Jeff Goldblum as the tall guy, Dexter King, an American actor trying his luck over in the […]

Apr, 17

Hannibal [Annibale] ** (1959, Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam) – Classic Movie Review 3499

Victor Mature packed up his trunk and went off to Belgrade, Serbia, to film directors Edgar G Ulmer and Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s 1959 Italian historical adventure movie about the Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 BC). In the story, […]

Mar, 24

Berserk ** (1967, Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Keen, Judy Geeson, Philip Madoc, Sydney Tafler) – Classic Movie Review 3255

Joan Crawford came to England in 1967 f­­or her penultimate movie Berserk to play Monica Rivers, the owner and ringmaster of a struggling circus enjoying the fame and renewed success arising from a series of […]

Jan, 09

The Greatest Show on Earth **** (1952, Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 2456

Cecil B DeMille carried off the Best Picture Oscar for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Gloria Grahame had to let an elephant rest its foot an inch from her face.  Big, bigger, biggest seems […]

May, 06

Tarzan and His Mate **** (1934, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 2237

Directors Cedric Gibbons and Jack Conway’s welcome 1934 sequel to the 1932 hit Tarzan, the Ape Man again stars a long-haired, muscular Johnny Weissmuller, this time in his second appearance as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Ape […]

Mar, 04

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