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Director Robert Montgomery’s 1949 film Once More, My Darling is a charming, well-acted screwball romantic comedy about a cute young socialite Marita Connell (Ann Blyth) with stolen Nazi gems, who is wooed by high-powered attorney Collier […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1941 Footsteps in the Dark is a lively Forties comedy thriller, with Flynn cast against type in suit and bow-tie (looking a bit stiff and odd) as Francis Warren, an investment adviser […]
Three of France’s best ever film players, Fernandel, Michel Simon and Arletty, star in directors Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara’s bright and funny 1939 French comedy film Fric-Frac about jewellery shop salesman Marcel (Fernandel) mixed […]
Ronald Colman’s suave charisma is perfect for E W Hornung’s cricketer and amateur cracksman A J Raffles in the crisp, fast moving and very entertaining 1930 first talkie version of the perennially popular crime mystery […]
Director Francesco Maselli’s below-par 1968 Swinging Sixties Italian comedy thriller A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] stars Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale, reunited from Blindfold (1966), who make a fine pair as a married […]
Director Ford Beebe’s likeable and entertaining 1944 Universal Pictures black and white crime drama/ film noir thriller Enter Arsène Lupin stars Charles Korvin as the sophisticated Gallic gentleman jewel thief Arsène Lupin. Ella Raines is his […]
Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1938 Arsène Lupin Returns is the welcome sequel to the 1932 MGM hit Arsène Lupin. And, yes, happily Arsène Lupin Returns, but alas John and Lionel Barrymore do not return for this […]