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Desperate Search *** (1952, Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 3544

Cult director Joseph H Lewis’s moderate low-budget 1952 adventure drama thriller stars Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina and Keenan Wynn. It all starts when a Canadian Western Airways Douglas DC-3 airliner takes off from Vancouver but catches […]

Apr, 09

Calamity Jane ***** (1953, Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie) – Classic Movie Review 3345

Director David Butler’s 1953 classic Golden Age musical Calamity Jane stars Doris Day as the titular gun-toting, whip-cracking Wild West whirlwind, along with Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. Sammy Fain’s haunting, show-stopping romantic number […]

Feb, 11

Annie Get Your Gun **** (1950, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 2618

The MGM studio, home of the musical, surprisingly lets down Irving Berlin’s great theatre show in a stagey, low-pizzazz movie version with the wrong star. However, director George Sidney’s 1950 movie is all very bright, […]

Jun, 19

Kismet *** (1955, Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone) – Classic Movie Review 1837

  Director Vicente Minnelli’s 1955 MGM musical version of the hit show, based on the old Edward Knoblock (non-musical play Kismet and Aleksandr Borodin’s music, is kitsch and luridly colourful in odd Eastmancolor. Howard Keel […]

Nov, 12

Show Boat ***** (1951, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner) – Classic Movie Review 1136

In 1951 the MGM studio uses the excuse of colour and widescreen to remake James Whale’s superb 1936 black and white film of the vintage Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical about turn-of-the-last-century Mississippi river folk. […]

Apr, 22

Kiss Me Kate ***** (1953, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore, Tommy Rall, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van) – Classic Movie Review 1117

The beguiling 1953 movie of the delightful Cole Porter Broadway smash-hit show Kiss Me Kate has style, wit and charm in abundance, plus the perfect cast to show off the songs: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, […]

Apr, 19

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