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- Counterspy [Undercover Agent] ** (1953, Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 13,453
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- The Blue Peter [Navy Heroes] ** (1955, Kieron Moore, Greta Gynt, Sarah Lawson, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 13,451
- Perfect Endings [13 Sentimentos] *** (2024, Artur Volpi, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Sidney Santiago) – Classic Movie Review 13,450
- The Big Chance **½ (1957, Adrienne Corri, William Russell, Ferdy Mayne) – Classic Movie Review 13,449
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- Underneath the Arches *** (1937, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen) – Classic Movie Review 13,447
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Posts Tagged "farce"
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You Can’t Have Everything **** (1937, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tony Martin) – Classic Movie Review 11,123
Director Norman Taurog’s 1937 all-time classic musical You Can’t Have Everything is an infectiously happy, bright and snazzy 20th Century Fox black and white film, in which starving playwright Judith ‘Judy’ Wells (Alice Faye), a […]
The Lady Is Willing ** (1934, Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 10,973
‘SHE WAS KIDNAPPED RIGHT UNDER THE EYES OF HER HUSBAND AND THEN THE FUN STARTED.’ Director Gilbert Miller’s 1933 black and white British film The Lady Is Willing is based on a play by Louis […]
Fast and Loose ** (1954, Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall, Brian Reece) – Classic Movie Review 10,607
Director Gordon Parry’s 1954 British black and white comedy Fast and Loose is a rather slow and flabby remake of 1933’s A Cuckoo in the Nest about a newly married husband (Brian Reece) having to […]
Banana Ridge *** (1942, Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Isabel Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 10,340
The venerable, funny Ben Travers farce play Banana Ridge about the shenanigans on a Malayan rubber plantation becomes an actorish, theatrical film in Walter C Mycroft’s 1942 British black and white comedy Banana Ridge. But […]
Three Fugitives *** (1989, Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff) – Classic Movie Review 10,042
The swift moving odd-couple (well odd-triple) 1989 slapstick comedy Three Fugitives is slickly directed by Francis Veber, who also writes the screenplay and bases it on his 1986 French farce film Les Fugitifs (with Gérard […]
Start the Revolution Without Me **** (1970, Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9996
Director Bud Yorkin’s 1970 film Start the Revolution Without Me stars Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, who are hilarious in this funny crazy comedy about mistaken identity involving a couple of pairs of identical twins […]
A Very Special Favor ** (1965, Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Nita Talbot, Dick Shawn, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 9665
Director Michael Gordon’s 1965 romantic comedy A Very Special Favor stars Charles Boyer as smooth and mature Frenchman Michel Boullard, who, for scant plot reasons, asks a wealthy American oilman called Paul Chadwick (Rock Hudson) if […]