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Maytime **** (1937, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 9452

Director Robert Z Leonard’s pretty 1937 MGM musical Maytime tells the cute and eventful story of true love versus opera’s bright lights, with some splendid singing from Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and a score […]

Mar, 03

Antoine et Antoinette [Antoine and Antoinette] **** (1947, Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert, Gaston Modot, Gérard Oury, Annette Poivre) – Classic Movie Review 8673

Director Jacques Becker’s charming 1947 French black and white film Antoine et Antoinette [Antoine and Antoinette] is a lighthearted, well observed romantic comedy drama about an everyday young couple, printer Antoine (Roger Pigaut) and shopgirl […]

Jul, 04

Shockproof *** (1949, Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey) – Classic Movie Review 8,459

Douglas Sirk’s smart film noir thriller Shockproof stars Cornel Wilde as a parole officer inveigled into a damaging affair with a murderess ex-convict (Patricia Knight). Sam Fuller writes the screenplay for the married stars. Director […]

May, 12

El **** (1953, Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Manuel Dondé) – Classic Movie Review 7637

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1952 Mexican movie El (aka This Strange Passion, or Torments) stars Arturo de Córdova as the middle-aged, wealthy, suave and uptight Francisco Galván de Montemayor, who is consumed with paranoid, raging jealousy after […]

Oct, 04

Green Hell ** (1940, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Alan Hale Sr, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7421

The exceptional director James Whale and an out-of-the-rut cast (Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Vincent Price) lift producer Harry Eddington’s in-the-rut 1940 adventure movie about South American natives attacking a jungle expedition searching […]

Aug, 09

Man-Proof ** (1938, Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7,282

MGM’s starry 1938 film Man-Proof tells a tale of a philanderer (Walter Pidgeon) marrying one woman (Rosalind Russell) while carrying on with another (Myrna Loy). Even the very starry cast cannot motor up into top […]

Jul, 11

Otello **** (1986, Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz) – Classic Movie Review 7245

Plácido Domingo is in great, wonderful voice as Otello the Moor in director Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986), an imaginative, lavish and splendid looking film of the marvellous Giuseppe Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy play, […]

Jul, 03

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