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Love Finds Andy Hardy *** (1938, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Lana Turner) – Classic Movie Review 3619

Mickey Rooney stars as teenage Andy Hardy who becomes entangled with three girls at the same time in director George B Seitz’s amusing and enjoyable 1938 MGM romantic comedy film, Love Finds Andy Hardy. It also […]

Apr, 26

Life Begins for Andy Hardy *** (1941, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 3617

Or rather, Working Life Begins for Andy Hardy. Mickey Rooney stars again in Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941) as Andy Hardy, who this time heads off to New York City to find work. Too […]

Apr, 25

Trumbo **** (2015, Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Elle Fanning) – Movie Review

Director Jay Roach’s riveting 2015 movie tells the crucial story of the diabolical Hollywood blacklist and America’s persecution of left-wingers and radicals that brought appalling harm to individuals, some jailed after committing no crime, and shame […]

Jan, 13

Frances **** (1982, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 2869

Jessica Lange as Best Actress and Kim Stanley as Best Supporting Actress were both Oscar and Golden Globe nominated and burn into the memory as the tormented Thirties movie star Frances Farmer and her demented […]

Aug, 31

Champion **** (1949, Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Lola Albright) – Classic Movie Review 2365

Director Mark Robson’s ultra-gripping classic 1949 boxing drama about ruthless rising to fame in the fight game provided Kirk Douglas with his first out of three Best Actor Oscar nominations. Although in the event the […]

Apr, 06

Juno and the Paycock *** (1929, Edward Chapman, Sara Allgood, Maire O’Neill, Kathleen O’Regan, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 2290

Director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville make rather heavy weather of their struggle with their 1929 movie adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s doomy successful classic play about a hard-pressed family living in the slums of Dublin […]

Mar, 21

Theorem [Teorema] ***½ (1968, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Laura Betti, Anne Wiazemsky, Ninetto Davoli) – Classic Movie Review 2269

Director Pier Paolo Pasolini casts young Terence Stamp effectively as a good-looking stranger who satisfies all the members of a wealthy Milan family in his gently satisfying and intriguing 1968 poetic drama Theorem [Teorema]. The […]

Mar, 15

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