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William Powell is perfect in his fourth and last appearance as smooth sleuth Philo Vance, in the excellent 1933 vintage suspense crime thriller film The Kennel Murder Case. This entertaining little gem is 73 blissful […]
Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short Hog Wild finds Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at their finest and funniest in a continuous series of perfectly carried out gags, with the most intricate attention paid to […]
‘Mrs Culpepper is an idol to the snobs – and a pain in the neck to everyone else.’ Director Edgar Kennedy’s and producer Hal Roach’s 1928 short comedy film From Soup to Nuts is an inventive, […]
‘This story is based on the assumption that, somewhere in the world, there are husbands who do not tell their wives everything.’ Ah, ha! Director Leo McCarey’s 1928 We Faw Down [We Slip Up] is […]
‘IT HAS NO RHYME…IT HAS NO REASON…IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE…IT MAKES LAUGHS! ‘ Well, that is an interesting route to go. Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1937 movie is a bright, clever and fast slapstick romantic comedy […]
Ten years on in 1941, director Walter Forde gets to remake his own great 1931 comedy movie success The Ghost Train, based on playwright Arnold Ridley’s vintage stage play, now polished up as a vehicle […]
Director Robert Siodmak’s 1944 movie is a thrilling mystery drama from the ace crime writer Cornell Woolrich. Alan Curtis plays Scott Henderson, an unhappily married man convicted of murdering his selfish wife when he’s been enjoying a one-night […]