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Director Mark Sandrich’s 1938 romantic comedy musical movie is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s eighth film together and, though there is a lot of fun to be found here, sadly the high standard is now […]
Producer-director George Stevens’s expert and delightful 1938 comedy pairs James Stewart and Rogers effectively. The stars are perfectly cast and on their best form. Stewart plays young university professor Peter Morgan who takes a quick […]
Writer-producer director Preston Sturges is seen here in 1944 on his finest satirical comedy drama form in one of his best movies. Sturges said that of all his films, it was ‘the one with the least […]
As World War Two rages, writer-director Preston Sturges calls Hollywood to task for its frivolity in his brilliant 1941 serio-comic road movie. Sturges’s movie is a classic satire, still funny, relevant and worthwhile. Joel McCrea […]
Director John Farrow’s sensitive 1945 release is an interesting and amusing but sometimes hard-to-take World War Two romantic comedy weepie plus wartime morale booster and American patriotic flag-waver. The 23-year-old Lizabeth Scott stars in her […]
The old sourpuss W C Fields invigorates the caustic vintage 1940 comedy The Bank Dick. He also wrote the nifty screenplay under the daft pen name of Mahatma Kane Jeeves. The ever-grouchy, hard-drinking old sourpuss W […]
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