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The Escort [Mauvaise Passe] ** (1999, Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Liza Walker, Noah Taylor, Frances Barber, Ben Whishaw) – Classic Movie Review 10,456

Director Michel Blanc’s 1999 France UK film The Escort [Mauvaise Passe] stars Daniel Auteuil as a poverty-stricken French writer called Pierre, who becomes a male escort in London, where he finds his new lifestyle more appealing […]

Oct, 24

Deep Crimson [Profundo carmesí] *** (1996, Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Rosa Furman, Sherlyn González) – Classic Movie Review 9983

Beware director Arturo Ripstein’s fascinating, dark and gruesome 1996 black comedy thriller Deep Crimson [Profundo carmesí] about the balding gigolo Nicolas Estrella (Daniel Giménez Cacho) and the overweight nurse Coral Fabre (opera singer Regina Orozco) […]

Jun, 30

Ladies’ Man ** (1931, William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard) – Classic Movie Review 9876

Director Lothar Mendes’s 1931 film Ladies’ Man is a well-crafted romantic melodrama, based on a novel by Rupert Hughes, with a screenplay by Herman J Mankiewicz. It stars William Powell as Jamie Darricott, a Machiavellian […]

Jun, 08

Just a Gigolo (1978, David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Marlene Dietrich) – Classic Movie Review 9549

Director David Hemmings’s 1978 musical drama Just a Gigolo [Schöner Gigolo, Armer Gigolo] stars the astonishing cast of David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Maria Schell and Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens] – ‘and […]

Mar, 23

Man of the World ** (1931, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 6710

In 1931 the young Carole Lombard was teamed with William Powell in directors Richard Wallace and Edward Goodman’s Man of the World. And Powell and Lombard form a most alluring star team in Herman J Mankiewicz’s surprisingly mundane, and […]

Feb, 19

Bedtime Story *** (1964, David Niven, Marlon Brando, Shirley Jones) Classic Movie Review 5215

Director Ralph Levy’s original 1964 comedy Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando as a pair of upstaging rival French Riviera gigolo conmen is now known better as the basis for its 1988 remake […]

Mar, 29

Midnight ***** (1939, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 5178

Director Mitchell Leisen’s delicious 1939 movie bon-bon is the very essence of sophisticated wit and polish. The first-rate cast sparkles as much as production designer Hans Dreier’s luminous sets of Paris. It may be the […]

Mar, 19

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