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Fast Company ** (1953, Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Nina Foch, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 12,623

MGM’s American black and white 1953 comedy film Fast Company stars Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Nina Foch, and Marjorie Main. Well meaning and pleasant, but too mild and modest, it flopped at the box office.  […]

Aug, 22

Money from Home * (1953, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Pat Crowley, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 12,031

Director George Marshall’s 1954 Technicolor 3D comedy film Money from Home stars Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and is based on a story by Damon Runyon. Dean Martin is his usual free-wheeling, eyebrow-raising self as […]

Mar, 28

Black Gold *** (1947, Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille) – Classic Movie Review 11,824

Director Phil Karlson’s 1947 American Cinecolor drama film Black Gold stars Anthony Quinn and Katherine DeMille, and is based on a story by Caryl Coleman. It was then Monogram Pictures’ most expensive film, their first […]

Jan, 03

Hot to Trot (1988, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy (voice), Virginia Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,949

Director Michael Dinner’s 1988 Hot To Trot is a return to that awful old comedy idea about a talking horse and it predictably produces no laughs (or is that neigh laughs?). John Candy voices Don, […]

Feb, 22

Lean on Pete **** (2017, Charlie Plummer, Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn, Thomas Mann) – Movie Review 

OK give Charlie Plummer the whatever award for Most Promising Newcomer as 15-year-old Charley Thompson who takes a summer job with washed-up horse trainer Del (Steve Buscemi) and befriends his struggling racehorse named Lean on Pete. Well, actually, Charlie […]

Sep, 29

Come on George! *** (1939, George Formby, Pat Kirkwood, Joss Ambler, Meriel Forbes, Cyril Raymond, Ronald Shiner) – Classic Movie Review 3821

Co-writer/director Anthony Kimmins’s vintage 1939 Ealing studios comedy boasts a particularly exuberant star turn from George Formby as an ice-cream seller who tames a dangerous race-horse, is engaged to look after him and rides him […]

Jun, 08

Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry *** (1937, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Frankie Darro, C Aubrey Smith) – Movie Review 3618

MGM’s fine young thoroughbreds Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland appear together for the first time in director Alfred E Green’s slight but pleasant 1937 tale with music, as horse-racing Timmie Donovan (Mickey) mixes with crooks and Judy […]

Apr, 26

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