Recent Posts
- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
Posts Tagged "melodrama"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "melodrama".
Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] ***** (1929, Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 8733
Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s deservedly much admired German late-period silent cult favourite 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] stars Louise Brooks as a sweet young rich gal Thymiane, who goes downhill […]
Action of the Tiger ** (1957, Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Gustavo Rojo, Anthony Dawson, José Nieto, Helen Haye, Anna Gerbern, Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 8140
Director Terence Young’s busy and capably handled but cardboard 1957 action adventure Action of the Tiger stars Van Johnson as Carson, a manly American contraband runner and mercenary hired by glamorous blonde French woman Tracy […]
Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809
Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]
City Streets **** (1931, Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, William Boyd, Wynne Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 7808
‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]
The Ice Follies of 1939 ** (1939, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 7665
Joan Crawford and James Stewart are on ice in director Reinhold Schunzel 1939 musical Ice Follies of 1939 – and it’s all in a day’s work for the stars at MGM. But not good work […]
Home from the Hill **** (1960, Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Hamilton, George Peppard, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 7443
Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 film Home from the Hill is a satisfying chunk of American Southern romantic drama with Robert Mitchum and Eleanor Parker. Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1960 American Metrocolor CinemaScope drama film Home from the […]
The Miracle Woman **** (1931, Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 6777
The 24-year-old Barbara Stanwyck works her own miracle, credibly playing Florence Fallon, a Bible bashing minister’s daughter who loses her faith and turns con-woman, a fake evangelist who pretends to heal sick folk to make […]