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- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
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Boeing, Boeing *** (1965, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Dany Saval, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 7120
Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis star in Boeing, Boeing as Bernie Lawrence and Robert Reed, a couple of Sixties swingers who run a place in Paris overflowing with air stewardesses in John Rich’s funny 1965 […]
The Member of the Wedding **** (1952, Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 5919
Director Fred Zinnemann makes a superb job of his stage-to-screen 1952 movie of Carson McCullers’s lovely play and novel The Member of the Wedding about the rites of passage of a tomboyish young girl called […]
Maudie **** (2016, Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett) – Movie Review
Sally Hawkins is on Oscar form as down-trodden, ultra-arthritic Nova Scotia woman Maudie, who leaves her oppressively bossy Aunt Ida (Gabrielle Rose) and begs to work as a housekeeper for the desperately dour and lonely fisherman Everett […]
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? **** (1969, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 4817
This extremely tasty 1969 black comedy mystery chiller is producer Robert Aldrich’s third Grand Guignol horror film after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). However, this time there is no […]
Ladies in Retirement **** (1941, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Isobel Elsom, Edith Barrett, Emma Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4718
Isobel Elsom plays Mrs Leonora Fiske, a wealthy ex-actress, who lives at an isolated house in the East Anglia marshlands in the 1880s with just her younger housekeeper Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino). When Ellen’s two older, […]
Strange Confession *** (1945, Lon Chaney Jr, Brenda Joyce, J Carrol Naish, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Bridges, Mary Gordon, Addison Richards) – Classic Movie Review 3768
Director John Hoffman’s chilling 1945 low-budget horror mystery is the fifth of Universal’s six Inner Sanctum series entries, and again stars Lon Chaney Jr, this time as chemist / scientist Jeff Carter, who is working on a cure […]
Imitation of Life **** (1959, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert Alda, Mahalia Jackson, Troy Donahue, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 3249
Lana Turner stars in one of her most famous roles as struggling young white actress Lora Meredith and Juanita Moore plays her black maid Annie Johnson. Director Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 tearjerker melodrama is a […]