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The House of Rothschild ***½ (1934, George Arliss, Loretta Young, Boris Karloff, Robert Young, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 5638
Director Alfred L Werker’s extravagantly produced 1934 saga tells of the rise of the Jewish banking family in 19th-century France and the Rothschild financial empire, inherited by his five sons, which helps to finance the war […]
The Jazz Singer * (1952, Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Eduard Franz, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 5027
‘It’s joy set to music. A story that sings out to your heart.’ Well, maybe, but more probably maybe not. Danny Thomas steps into Al Jolson’s singing shoes for Michael Curtiz’s slushy 1952 second film […]
The Jazz Singer ** (1980, Laurence Olivier, Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz) – Classic Movie Review 4992
The Jazz Singer’s sentimental story exploring the clash of the lure of showbiz versus the pull of family duty is impossibly dated. But director Richard Fleischer’s 1980 third film version of Sampson Raphaelson’s antique play […]
The Jazz Singer ***** (1927, Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer) – Classic Movie Review 4897
It is not as drama that director Alan Crosland’s 1927 Al Jolson musical about a Jewish Cantor’s son who prefers showbiz to the approval of his father is remembered. Nor is it for the performances […]
The Diary of Anne Frank **** (1959, Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker) – Classic Movie Review 4703
Director George Stevens’s harrowing 1959 wartime drama The Diary of Anne Frank films Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s Broadway play based on Anne Frank’s diaries to very considerable success as a triple-Oscar-winner for Best Supporting […]
Europa Europa **** (1990, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Solomon Perel) – Classic Movie Review 4668
Marco Hofschneider’s acting career started unexpectedly when he was cast to play the lead in writer-director Agnieszka Holland’s exciting, rousing and highly emotional 1990 true-life war drama. It was the Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language […]
Gentleman’s Agreement **** (1947, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, Dean Stockwell, Jane Wyatt, June Havoc, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 4472
Director Elia Kazan’s first film concerned with personal and social issues was his 1947 triple Oscar-winning film dealing with anti-Semitism in America. It won the Best Picture and Best Director awards and was as successful as […]