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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
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Posts Tagged "farce"
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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 […]
Charley’s Aunt *** (1930, Charles Ruggles, June Collyer, Doris Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 9296
Director Al Christie’s 1930 Charley’s Aunt is the first sound version of the venerable Brandon Thomas cross dressing comedy farcical play, with an engaging, very entertaining star performance by Charles Ruggles. But it is a […]