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Topper Takes a Trip **** (1938, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 7204

Roland Young returns for director Norman Z McLeod’s polished and highly amusing 1938 Topper Takes a Trip, the sequel to the 1937 supernatural fantasy comedy Topper, as haunted banker Cosmo P Topper, who goes to […]

Jun, 21

Swiss Miss ***½ (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Charles Judels, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 6931

Director John G Blystone’s 1938 comedy stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as cheesy mousetrap sellers in the Swiss Alps, who get swindled out of their money by a cheesemaker and become waiters at a […]

Apr, 16

Ten Thousand Bedrooms ** (1957, Dean Martin, Eva Bartok, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Walter Slezak, Paul Henreid, Dewey Martin, Jules Munshin, Marcel Dalio, Evelyn Varden) – Classic Movie Review 6909

After their bust-up, Dean Martin stars for the first time without his long-term screen partner Jerry Lewis, in director Richard Thorpe’s meek and mild MGM 1957 musical comedy set in a Rome hotel. It is […]

Apr, 10

Cowboy *** (1958, Jack Lemmon, Glenn Ford, Brian Donlevy, Anna Kashfi, Dick York, Richard Jaeckel, King Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 6829

You don’t expect to find Jack Lemmon in a Western, but here he is in the entertaining and imaginative 1958 cowboy tale Cowboy, based on Frank Harris’s apocryphal autobiography My Reminiscences as a Cowboy On […]

Mar, 19

Week-End at the Waldorf *** (1945, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Robert Benchley, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6717

MGM’s expensive, sprightly 1945 Week-End at the Waldorf remakes Grand Hotel, relocated to wartime New York City, and the Waldorf-Astoria, with amiable performances from Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon and Van Johnson. Director Robert […]

Feb, 21

The Business of Strangers *** (2001, Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller) – Classic Movie Review 6287

‘Everyone eats shit. It’s just a question of degrees.’ – Julie. Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles play Julie and Paula, business women of very different ages and backgrounds who meet up at an airport motel, bond over […]

Nov, 22

Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] **** (1955, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 6281

This early Michelangelo Antonioni 1955 Italian film Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] is a highly successful, clever adaptation of a Cesare Pavese story (Tra Donne Sole) about the relationships between a young cosmopolitan fashion designer […]

Nov, 21

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