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Turned Out Nice Again *** (1941, George Formby, Peggy Bryan, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 3820

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 showcase for ukulele-playing comic George Formby gets plenty of opportunities for jokes about knickers since he is cast as gormless George Pearson, an overseer in Dawson’s ladies’ underwear factory. There an […]

Jun, 08

Somewhere in the Night ***½ (1946, John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte) – Classic Movie Review 3320

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1946 crime thriller has a familiar set-up and fairly predictable plot development, though it is often an involving, gripping movie. And Mankiewicz manages to pull it out of the rut and turn it […]

Feb, 04

The Saint Takes Over *** (1940, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle, Morgan Conway) – Classic Movie Review 3224

Director Jack Hively’s twisty and noirish 1940 crime mystery thriller The Saint Takes Over is the fifth in the RKO Saint series, the fourth for George Sanders as Simon Templar, aka The Saint, and the […]

Jan, 03

The Falcon in Mexico ** (1944, Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha Vickers) – Classic Movie Review 3214

‘Horror-Mask Key Clue As Master-Killer Slays Four!’ Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon, aka suave amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), goes with an artist’s daughter called Barbara Wade (Martha Vickers) to Mexico to investigate […]

Jan, 02

The Amazing Colossal Man *** (1957, Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, James Seay, Larry Thor, Russ Bender) – Classic Movie Review 2757

Producer/co-writer/director Bert I Gordon’s 1957 sci-fi monster movie about an atomic explosion that starts an American army officer growing terrifyingly into a giant is endearing and quite lively. Glenn Langan stars as Lieutenant Colonel Glenn […]

Jul, 30

Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] **** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley) – Classic Movie Review 776

Michael Powell’s 1957 film Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] with his long-term writing-producing-directing partner Emeric Pressburger is a stirring, old-style war adventure, telling a rattling good yarn, set in Crete in 1944. In the […]

Jan, 31

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