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Adam’s Rib ***** (1949, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, David Wayne, Tom Ewell, Judy Holliday, Jean Hagen) – Classic Movie Review 3,854

George Cukor’s smart and sophisticated 1949 film Adam’s Rib is one of the great Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn comedies. They are are on top form as married lawyers who are adversaries in an attempted […]

Jun, 13

The Sea of Grass *** (1947, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Walker) – Classic Movie Review 3858

Based on Conrad Richter’s 1936 novel, director Elia Kazan’s 1947 black and white Western The Sea of Grass represents an effective change of pace for the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn star team. But years later Kazan […]

Jun, 13

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 *** (2011, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner) – Classic Movie Review 3835

The final episode of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga is split into two movies, as director Bill Condon’s 2011 Part 1 story The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 begins with Kristen Stewart’s Bella now a vampire learning […]

Jun, 11

I Married a Monster from Outer Space *** (1958, Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Ty Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 3696

Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jnr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $175,000 by Paramount. Poor Marge (Gloria Talbott) finds that being Tryon’s new […]

May, 11

Libeled Lady **** (1936, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 3682

Director Jack Conway’s infallibly entertaining 1936 vintage MGM comedy boasts four of the biggest star names of the Thirties and a witty, sparkling script about an heiress Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) suing a paper for […]

May, 09

Petulia *** (1968, Julie Christie, George C Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Knight, Pippa Scott) – Classic Movie Review 3,537

Richard Lester takes us back to the San Francisco-style kookie Swinging Sixties era, in the interesting but shaky 1968 romantic drama film Petulia. Julie Christie stars as the Arch Kook Petulia, a zany young British […]

Apr, 06

Heaven Can Wait ****½ (1943, Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar) – Classic Movie Review 3450

Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch brings his famed stylish and witty touch to this much-admired fantasy comedy tale of a 19th-century Casanova called Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche), who catches the lovely Martha Strabel Van Cleve (Gene Tierney), but is […]

Mar, 04

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