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Pay Day *** (1922, Charlie Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 12,148

Pay Day (1922) is Charles Chaplin’s final two-reel short film, running just 21 minutes. Chaplin writes, directs and stars in the film, made by First National Pictures. Chaplin plays a bricklayer house construction labourer, a […]

May, 30

So’s Your Old Man **** (1926, W C Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9779

Director Gregory La Cava 1926 comedy So’s Your Old Man is one of W C Fields’s best silent comedies, in which he plays Mr Samuel Bisbee, a tippling glazier and henpecked husband, who takes his […]

May, 16

Inn for Trouble *** (1960, Peggy Mount, David Kossoff, Leslie Phillips, Shaun O’Riordan, Ronan O’Casey) – Classic Movie Review 7549

The Larkins ride again in director C M Pennington-Richards’s genial 1960 film Inn for Trouble, a big-screen adaptation of the then current, highly popular Fifties/Sixties British ITV series that ran from 1958 to 1964. Peggy […]

Sep, 06

The Bank Dick ***** (1940, W C Fields, Grady Sutton, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard) – Classic Movie Review 1271

The old sourpuss W C Fields invigorates the caustic vintage 1940 comedy The Bank Dick. He also wrote the nifty screenplay under the daft pen name of Mahatma Kane Jeeves. The ever-grouchy, hard-drinking old sourpuss W […]

May, 31

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