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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 […]
Director Monte Brice’s funny 1930 20-minute comedy short The Golf Specialist from RKO Pictures is W C Fields’s first talkie. It is shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey the site of many early film studios. […]
The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: At Bertram’s Hotel again stars Joan Hickson, who tackles her seventh case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s 1965 novel. The sleuth finds fake identity, larceny […]
Director Gordon Parry’s 1956 British comedy A Touch of the Sun stars Frankie Howerd as William Darling, a put-upon bellhop/ hall porter at a crumbling hotel/ guesthouse, who discovers that he is the beneficiary of […]
Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]
The teaming of Shirley Temple and Jimmy Durante is the main attraction and high point of director Irving Cummings’s pleasant 1938 musical Little Miss Broadway, though George Murphy and Edna May Oliver are good value […]
Director Eugene Forde’s 1937 mystery crime thriller Charlie Chan on Broadway stars Warner Oland as Chan, Keye Luke as Lee Chan, Joan Marsh as Joan Wendall, J Edward Bromberg as Murdock, Donald Woods as Speed […]