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What a Way to Go! * (1964, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Cummings, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, Dean Martin, Paul Newman) – Classic Movie Review 10,279

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1964 compendium black comedy What a Way to Go! stars Shirley MacLaine as a four-time widow. Witty Broadway authors Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin’ in the Rain) write the screenplay, based […]

Sep, 08

Author! Author! *** (1982, Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Bob Dishy) – Classic Movie Review 9675

Director Arthur Hiller’s 1982 comedy Author! Author! Stars Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, and Bob Dishy, and has a screenplay by Israel Horovitz. Although Al Pacino is odd casting (since he is not exactly […]

Apr, 25

Girls! Girls! Girls! ** (1962, Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin, Jeremy Slate) – Classic Movie Review 6238

Stella Stevens plays selfish singer Robin Gantner, who offers ship’s captain Elvis a new boat, in the 1962 Presley musical star vehicle film Girls! Girls! Girls!  Director Norman Taurog’s mediocre 1962 musical star vehicle film […]

Nov, 12

Mother! ** (2017, Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer) – Movie Review

Writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! starts quite well enough, with an intriguing beginning that promises upmarket mystery and chiller excitement, and then improves a lot when classy performers Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer join the movie and it starts […]

Sep, 16

Oh… Rosalinda!! *** (1955, Michael Redgrave, Anthony Quayle, Anton Walbrook, Dennis Price, Mel Ferrer, Ludmilla Tchérina) – Classic Movie Review 5,505

The 1955 British Technicolor film Oh… Rosalinda!! is an ambitious and imaginative if slightly fumbled and clumsy box-office flop musical from writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Their game plan is to update Johann Strauss’s operetta […]

May, 26

Verboten! **** (1959, James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, Paul Dubov, Harold Day) – Classic Movie Review 5085

‘A MAD GENERATION… Spawned In Lust… Consumed By Hate!’ Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1959 drama of troubled life in postwar Germany after the fall of the Third Reich is an intelligent, robust and tough-toned movie. There […]

Mar, 01

Let George Do It ***½ (1940, George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Browne, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4874

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film stars George Formby as George Hepplewhite, a daft ukulele playing concert-party member, who mistakes Bergen, Norway, for Blackpool, England. Having taken the wrong boat and […]

Jan, 11

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