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The Passing of the Third Floor Back **** (1935, Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier) – Classic Movie Review 12,921

A Stranger works to redeem the inhabitants of a London boarding house, in Austrian director Berthold Viertel’s fascinating 1935 British drama film The Passing of the Third Floor Back, starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene […]

Jun, 06

The Super ** (1991, Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith Osborne) – Classic Movie Review 10,021

Director Rod Daniel’s 1991 The Super is a hesitant comedy with a good premise, some solid laughs and a fine Joe Pesci performance as an unscrupulous New York slum landlord, Louie Kritski, who is ordered […]

Jul, 09

The Brute [El Bruto] **** (1953, Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Andrés Soler) – Classic Movie Review 9958

The 1953 drama The Brute [El Bruto] was filmed fast by Luis Buñuel in Mexico, with intriguing performances and a fiery mood. Buñuel’s complex, heated, highly charged tale is of a none-too-intelligent meat-packing giant, Pedro […]

Jun, 25

The Chimp **** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbert, Dorothy Granger, Tiny Sandford) – Classic Movie Review 7596

‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled at the beauties of circus life – Mr Laurel never got further than the monkey cage.’ After working for a circus for seven weeks of rain and with no business […]

Sep, 19

Angora Love **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7595

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy upset their suspicious landlord (Edgar Kennedy) and another house-guest (Charlie Hall) when they hide a stray goat in their ‘no pets’ lodgings after they hear that the pet-shop owner thinks that […]

Sep, 18

Laughing Gravy **** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7523

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy evict their dog, Laughing Gravy, when their mean, dog-hating landlord (Charlie Hall) finds him and then spend the rest of the freezing night looking for him. The boys come up with […]

Aug, 31

Under the Yum Yum Tree * (1963, Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde, Edie Adams) – Classic Movie Review 6232

Co-writer/ director David Swift’s 1963 vehicle for Jack Lemmon is a ridiculously silly Swinging Sixties adult sex comedy about a couple, Robin Austin (Carol Lynley) and Dave Manning (Dean Jones), deciding to move in together to […]

Nov, 11

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