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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! **** (1988, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, O J Simpson) – Classic Movie Review 3433

The 1988 slapstick comedy film The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! stars the superbly droll Leslie Nielsen as crackpot cop Frank Drebin, who uncovers a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II (impersonator […]

Mar, 01

Forbidden Planet ***** (1956, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 2555

Director Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a genre classic, haunting and beautiful looking, gaining an immense amount of other-worldly mood and atmosphere from being all artificially filmed in the […]

Jun, 04

Nuts **** (1987, Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 2274

Director Martin Ritt’s 1987 drama stars Barbra Streisand, who works her fingernails to the bone for credibility as a parentally abused high-class call girl, Claudia Draper, who has killed one of her clients called Allen […]

Mar, 17

Dracula: Dead and Loving It *** (1995, Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 1732

Producer/co-writer/director Mel Brooks revisits one of his finest hours – the 1974 Young Frankenstein for a belated companion piece that has enough good humour and amusing jokes for tolerant Brooks aficionados to call this a […]

Oct, 02

The Poseidon Adventure **** (1972 Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters) – Classic Film Review 1209

Director Ronald Neame’s famous 1972 definitive disaster movie launched the Seventies vogue for the genre and still provides a good measure of entertainment. It’s cast strongly with an all-star cast who include five Oscar winners: […]

May, 12

Scary Movie 3 (2003, Anna Faris, Regina Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1181

David Zucker from the Airplane! and Naked Gun series takes over the Scary Movie horror movie spoof franchise from Keenen Ivory Wayans and the other two Wayans Bros in 2003, and injects the fun back […]

May, 06

Airplane! ***** (1980, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 669

Written and directed by the Zucker Brothers David and Jerry and Jim Abrahams, this 1980 send-up of the Airport movies, group-jeopardy disaster films in general and Arthur Hailey’s 1956 TV movie Flight into Danger (remade as […]

Jan, 11

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