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Director Stan Dragoti’s 1983 comedy Mr Mom is a most enjoyable variation on the familiar comic theme of wife going out to work when her husband gets fired and dad learning the perils of domestic […]
Director Ray Enright’s 1934 Warner Bros movie Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers and Pat O’Brien. O’Brien plays unscrupulous agent Russell ‘Russ’ Blake, who discovers singing waiter Buddy Clayton (Powell) and puts him […]
Director Marion Gering’s 1937 Thunder in the City brought Edward G Robinson to Britain for this dated crime comedy drama about a British aristocrat, The Duke (Nigel Bruce), who inveigles a pushy American business publicist, Dan Armstrong (Robinson), […]
Lana Turner and John Shelton star as young office workers Margy and Bill, who break the rules of the firm that they both work for by secretly marrying, and then get into financial difficulty when […]
Director Richard Quine’s entertaining 1956 comedy stars the fizzy, utterly delightful Judy Holliday as Laura Partridge, a resting actress and a small shareholder in a big business, owning just 10 shares. She upsets the corporate […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1940 vintage black and white MGM romance Waterloo Bridge is a sweet, tear-jerking winner, although it cries out for Technicolor when Joseph Ruttenberg shoots it in black and white. Though Vivien Leigh […]
Writer-director James Vanderbilt’s brilliant newsroom drama provides great acting opportunities and tells an important story about the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes show’s report on its investigation of President George W Bush’s military service. In America, the story […]