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Les Misérables ***** (1935, Charles Laughton, Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 3148

Charles Laughton gives an outstanding, surprisingly controlled performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in director Richard Boleslawski’s fine, meticulously compressed 1935 screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Fredric March is also admirable […]

Dec, 12

Anna Karenina ***** (1935, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Basil Rathbone, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O’Sullivan, May Robson, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny) – Classic Movie Review 2914

Producer David O Selznick and director Clarence Brown work over Leo Tolstoy’s great 1877 novel as a 1935 big studio movie vehicle for the great Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina, the young wife of the […]

Sep, 19

Seven Days in May ***** (1964, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Martin Balsam, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 2533

Fired up director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 paranoia conspiracy thriller simmers with tension and delivers edge-of-the-seat suspense in a story that is all about right-wing general  James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster)’s coup with other military leaders […]

May, 28

Executive Suite **** (1954, William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March, Louis Calhern, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas, Dean Jagger, Nina Foch) – Classic Movie Review 2526

‘Behind the lighted tower windows the conflict of love and power is reckless and daring!’ Director Robert Wise’s Oscar-nominated 1954 drama stars Barbara Stanwyck as Julia O Tredway, who oversees the candidates for new board […]

May, 27

The Best Years of Our Lives ***** (1946, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2437

Director William Wyler’s 1946 triumph The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Oscars including Best Picture. It also won the 1947 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the 1948 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Apr, 30

Nothing Sacred ***** (1937, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 1,951

The delightful 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred stars Carole Lombard as the supposedly sick Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont, and Fredric March as a sleazy New York reporter creating sob stories out of her […]

Dec, 13

Death Takes a Holiday **** (1934, Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing) – Classic Movie Review 1784

Fredric March stars as Death who decides to take a holiday in Italy, in the 1934 fantasy film Death Takes a Holiday.  Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy film of Maxwell Anderson’s play about the Angel […]

Oct, 26

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