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It’s in the Bag! **** (1945, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 10,496

Director Richard Wallace’s wisecracking 1945 slapstick screwball comedy It’s in the Bag! [The Fifth Chair] stars baggy-eyed American radio comedian Fred Allen, who gets his best screen role as a flea-circus promoter/ ringmaster called Fred […]

Nov, 03

Mayerling **** (1936, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier) – Classic Movie Review 8478

Director Anatole Litvak’s original 1936 black and white movie Mayerling is the memorable French hit film based on Claude Anet’s novel of the fateful love of the 19th-century married Hapsburg heir, Archduke Rudolf, for the […]

May, 17

Tarzan’s Three Challenges *** (1963, Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Ricky Der, Earl Cameron, Tsu Kobayashi) – Classic Movie Review 8073

Director Robert Day’s 1963 Tarzan’s Three Challenges is set in Thailand, with the change of locale refreshing the franchise. Jock Mahoney stars as a globe-trotting, trouble-shooting Tarzan, travelling by plane rather than vine, on a […]

Jan, 29

One Body Too Many ** (1944, Jack Haley, Bela Lugosi, Jean Parker, Blanche Yurka, Lyle Talbot, Douglas Fowley, Bernard Nedell) – Classic Movie Review 6138

‘A shudder a second! A laugh a minute! YOU’LL DIE SCREAMING WITH LAUGHTER! Bela Lugosi is a welcome presence as the butler Merkil in the 1944 comedy-mystery film One Body Too Many. ‘A shudder a […]

Oct, 24

Jimmy the Gent **** (1934, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Alice White, Allen Jenkins, Arthur Hohl) – Classic Movie Review 5935

‘He’s the BIGGEST CHISELER since MICHAELANGELO!’ Director Michael Curtiz’s 1934 Warner Bros movie has the inestimable distinction of teaming the unforgettable young James Cagney and Bette Davis, aged just 25. It is their first pairing […]

Aug, 18

Little Lord Fauntleroy **** (1936, Freddie Bartholomew, C Aubrey Smith, Mickey Rooney, Dolores Costello, Jessie Ralph, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 5226

Producer David O Selznick and director John Cromwell’s lovingly crafted 1936 children’s film finds the perfect star in Freddie Bartholomew as little Cedric (‘Ceddie’), aka Little Lord Fauntleroy. It follows a once famous 1921 silent […]

Apr, 01

The Cat and the Canary **** (1927, Creighton Hale, Laura La Plante, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Flora Finch, Gertrude Astor, Lucien Littlefield) – Classic Movie Review 4425

Director Paul Leni’s famed 1927 Universal Studios silent version of John Willard’s long-running stage play stars Creighton Hale, Laura La Plante, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Flora Finch, Gertrude Astor and Lucien Littlefield. Robert F Hill, Alfred […]

Sep, 27

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