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Week-End in Havana ***½ (1941, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 9,933

20th Century Fox’s 1941 film Week-End in Havana is a highly engaging Forties wartime musical, with Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda on top singing form. It is 81 minutes of Technicolor escapist bliss. Director Walter […]

Jun, 19

Mr Saturday Night ** (1992, Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner) – Classic Movie Review 8775

Beware comedians with a sentimental bent who don the latex to play old folk! Billy Crystal is at it in his 1992 comedy Mr Saturday Night, as an ancient TV comic called Buddy Young Jr, […]

Jul, 29

Edison, the Man *** (1940, Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 7913

Director Clarence Brown’s 1940 MGM drama Edison, the Man stars Spencer Tracy, who takes over from Mickey Rooney (who had played the inventor as a boy in the same year’s Young Tom Edison) to play […]

Dec, 16

The Brave Bulls *** (1951, Mel Ferrer, Miroslava, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6353

Director Robert Rossen’s intriguing 1951 made-in-Mexico romantic bullfight drama stars Mel Ferrer as matador Luis Bello, who is knee deep in devastating troubles. First he loses his confidence in the bull ring, after he nearly […]

Dec, 03

Speedway * (1968, Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Bill Bixby, Gale Gordon, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 6253

Alas Speedway is just another duff movie from the late period of Elvis Presley’s film career. The pairing of Elvis Presley as a stock-car speedway king called Steve Grayson and Nancy Sinatra as an income […]

Nov, 14

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man ** (1951, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Arthur Franz, Nancy Guild, Adele Jergens) – Classic Movie Review 5587

Director Charles Lamont’s 1951 comedy is a fairly lively Bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie series episode, with the expected plot (‘suggested by H G Wells’) and decent effects, particularly in the vivacious and pacy […]

Jun, 12

Stardust *** (1974, David Essex, Adam Faith, Marty Wilde, Keith Moon, Edd Byrnes) – Classic Movie Review 5452

Director Michael Apted’s popular 1974 British drama is the sequel to 1973’s hit That’ll Be the Day and again stars David Essex as Jim MacLaine in returning writer Ray Connolly’s effective tale of the rise and […]

May, 14

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