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Posts Tagged "Manhattan"

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Broadway Melody of 1940 **** (1940, Fred Astaire, George Murphy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3627

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 musical brings the series of four Broadway Melody movies to an end in great style with Fred Astaire and George Murphy kicking up a storm as Johnny Brett and King Shaw, […]

Apr, 27

Broadway Melody of 1938 **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3626

Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]

Apr, 27

Babes on Broadway **** (1941, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Alexander Woolcott, Margaret O’Brien, Virginia Weidler, Ray Macdonald, Richard Quine, Donna Reed, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 3609

Director Busby Berkeley’s infectiously exuberant 1942 follow-up to his 1939 Babes in Arms again teams Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as hopeful talented young performers battling on Broadway, while putting on a show to send […]

Apr, 24

Babes in Arms **** (1939, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 3610

Director Busby Berkeley’s 1939 musical is a triumph for Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the first and most famous of their ‘let’s put on a show’ movies, in which the kids of broke performers stage […]

Apr, 24

Kid Galahad **** (1937, Edward G Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Harry Carey Sr, Jane Bryan, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 3370

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1937 movie is a top-of-the-class entry in Warner Bros’ Thirties boxing-movie cycle. Edward G Robinson gives a knockout turn as fight promoter Nick Donati, who turns a bellhop called Ward Guisenberry (Wayne […]

Feb, 16

The Wolfpack **** (2015, Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo) – Movie Review

First-time director Crystal Moselle‘s documentary about the six Angulo brothers is the most impressive and essential personal biography since Amy. Locked in safe from the supposedly harmful outside world by their parents at home in […]

Aug, 26

Bullets or Ballots **** (1936, Edward G Robinson, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 2729

Director William Keighley’s sharp and involving 1936 gangster movie stars the great Edward G Robinson, along with Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane Frank McHugh. And Robinson is on the side of the law for […]

Jul, 22

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