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Posts Tagged "honeymoon"

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Dodsworth **** (1936, Walter Huston, Mary Astor, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven, Paul Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 6428

Walter Huston, Mary Astor, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven and Paul Lukas star in director William Wyler’s heartwarming, life-affirming 1936 film from producer Samuel Goldwyn. Production designer Richard Day won an Oscar for Best Art Direction, and […]

Dec, 19

Busman’s Honeymoon [Haunted Honeymoon] *** (1940, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton, Googie Withers) – Classic Movie Review 6,286

The deliciously charming and amusing 1940 British comedy thriller film Busman’s Honeymoon [Haunted Honeymoon] is based on Dorothy L Sayers’s co-authored London West End play. Director Arthur B Woods’s deliciously charming and amusing 1940 British […]

Nov, 22

Sextette * (1978, Mae West, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Dom DeLuise, Timothy Dalton, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 6225

Director Ken Hughes’s 1978 trainwreck of a film is the ludicrous final fling by an 85-year-old Mae West, acting out a story based on her own play about an ageing love goddess called Marlo Manners, […]

Nov, 10

Move Over, Darling *** (1963, Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Chuck Connors, Fred Clark, Don Knotts) – Classic Movie Review 5,969

When Marilyn Monroe died, 20th Century Fox hastily revamped her unfinished movie Something’s Got To Give with a title change to Move Over, Darling (1963) as a vehicle for Doris Day. In 1962 the screwball comedy My […]

Aug, 25

The Long, Long Trailer **** (1954, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Moroni Olsen) – Classic Movie Review 5,929

The 1954 road movie comedy film The Long, Long Trailer is a sprightly, nimble vehicle for the real-life married pair Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who star as a couple who buy an all-too-expensive trailer-home […]

Aug, 17

The Invisible Menace ** (1938, Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven, Cy Kendall) – 5623

Director John Farrow’s little 1938 thriller at least has the virtue of starring the great Boris Karloff in his prime. The question in Crane Wilbur’s screenplay is, has US army worker Jevries (Karloff) committed the murder […]

Jun, 17

The White Sheikh [Lo Sceicco Bianco] **** (1952, Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 5510

This early Federico Fellini 1952 movie, his first as writer and sole director (after jointly filming 1951’s Lights of Variety), is an extremely eye-catching and highly diverting triumph. It focuses on a Rome honeymooning couple, Wanda […]

May, 27

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