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- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
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- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
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Pete Kelly’s Blues **** (1955, Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jayne Mansfield) – Classic Movie Review 7,041
The exceptional 1955 musical crime film Pete Kelly’s Blues stars Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald, and features Jayne Mansfield. It is based on Jack Webb’s […]
All of Me *** (1984, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant) – Classic Movie Review 6897
Director Carl Reiner’s enjoyable 1984 comedy stars a hilarious Steve Martin, who gives all of himself in this welcome crazy comedy about Roger Cobb (Martin), a nice lawyer whose body is taken over by the […]
Paris Blues *** (1961, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll, Serge Reggiani, Barbara Laage) – Classic Movie Review 6853
Director Martin Ritt’s interesting, underrated 1961 movie stars Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook, American ex-pat jazz players in Paris who cuddle up to two American tourists, Lillian and Connie […]
Mo’ Better Blues *** (1990, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Joie Lee) – Classic Movie Review 6264
Writer-producer-director Spike Lee goes for an abrupt change of pace with this arty and sentimental 1990 movie tale about the life of New York trumpet player and bandleader Bleek Gilliam (impeccably played by Denzel Washington). He forms […]
Young Man with a Horn [Young Man of Music] **** (1950, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez) – Classic Movie Review 6081
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1950 biographical music drama stars Kirk Douglas as American jazz cornetist Rick Martin. Warner Bros’ fictionalised biopic is based on the life of all-time jazz great Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August […]
Too Late Blues *** (1961, Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers) – Classic Movie Review 5756
Producer/ director/ co-writer John Cassavetes’s intriguing and haunting 1961 movie tale stars Bobby Darin as John ‘Ghost’ Wakefield, an ideological jazz player who meets an unbalanced and introverted beautiful singer, Jess Polanski (Stella Stevens). He […]
Shadows **** (1959, Hugh Hurd, Leila Goldoni, Ben Carruthers, Anthony Ray, Dennis Sallas, Tom Allen, Rupert Crosse, David Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5754
A young orphaned African-American family battles to survive in Manhattan. Jazz player Hugh (Hugh Hurd) struggles to make a dollar or two singing in low bars; his sister Leila (Leila Goldoni) joins the phony art […]