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Following her star-making role of Diana Medford in the hit silent Our Dancing Daughters (1928), Joan Crawford’s first talkie, Untamed (1929), was made during the difficult period of MGM’s transition from silent to sound movies. But it was another success for Crawford, propelling her […]
Director Joseph Losey’s 1958 movie The Gypsy and the Gentleman is a lusty, opulent-looking, lip-smacking British throwback to The Wicked Lady school of romantic period melodramas, though in this just pre-British New Wave era this […]
Red Skelton stars as Al Marsh, who is bequeathed a Paris boutique and travels to France to sell the shop to stage a show in New York with Tony Naylor (Howard Keel) and Jerry Ralby […]
Jean Simmons stars in the 1947 British locked-room mystery drama Uncle Silas, a properly creepy and eerie film adaptation of the J Sheridan Le Fanu classic chiller novel. Jean Simmons stars in the 1947 British […]
Or, actually, The Gaylord Sisters. Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Nancy Coleman star as three sisters –Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna ‘Susie’ Gaylord – who are in a fight to save their New York City Fifth […]
Director John Cromwell’s rousing 1942 20th Century Fox romantic period adventure Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake finds ideally cast Tyrone Power and George Sanders both on top form. It also features the fine […]
Chris O’Donnell takes the title role, as Jimmie Shannon, a commitment-phobic man who has to marry by the time he is 30 to claim his $100 million inheritance. Drably unfunny and listlessly acted, the story only […]