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The MGM studio welcomes back its Thirties great contract star Joan Crawford after a decade away with director Charles Walters’s sometimes feeble, frequently daft 1953 soap opera. Nevertheless, it is quite enjoyable and can boast some […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1962 movie Kid Galahad is the Elvis Presley musical remake of director Michael Curtiz’s famous 1937 prize-fighter movie Kid Galahad, in which Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as the promoter […]
Director Howard Hawks’s extremely well made and rousing 1943 patriotic wartime flag-waving drama about the American crew of an Air Force Boeing B17 bomber named the Mary Ann on a Far East mission in 1941 […]
The polished 1943 comedy romantic drama film Old Acquaintance stars Bette Davis as Kit Marlowe and Miriam Hopkins as the bitchy Millie Drake. Davis said: ‘Miriam was her usual self. Director Vincent Sherman said he […]
Director George Sidney’s 1948 movie casts Gene Kelly who proves inspired casting as an incredibly acrobatic D’Artagnan in MGM’s exceptionally plush, colourful and joyful version of the Alexandre Dumas père adventure classic tale, set in […]
Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]
Based on Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel, director Sydney Pollack’s 1969 study of disparate group of characters desperate to win a gruelling 1932 Depression-era dance marathon is both incredibly atmospheric and evocative as well as thoughtful […]