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Producer-director Mario Zampi’s delightful 1951 British comedy is a minor classic, enshrining one of Alastair Sim’s most treasurable performances as a henpecked thriller writer and providing eagerly grabbed showcases for showy turns by some of […]
Marilyn Monroe (as Pola Debevoise), Betty Grable (as Loco Dempsey) and Lauren Bacall (as Schatze Page) star as the shallow but sweet gold-diggers of 1953 in director Jean Negulesco’s entertaining smash comedy. The trio of […]
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s plush and alluring British 1968 French Riviera crime caper with dark psychological and sexual overtones is brought to life by capable character studies from Michael Caine, Eric Portman and Nanette Newman. The […]
The 1959 film Pillow Talk sparked off Doris Day and Rock Hudson’s series of profitable hit comedy movies. They teamed for three films and this is the best of them. Day was Oscar nominated as […]
Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]
Svengali-style producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s 1932 vintage romance provides a famous role for his protégé Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday, who works as the Blonde Venus chanteuse in smooth young millionaire playboy Nick Townsend’s nightclub. […]
Director George Cukor’s 1932 gleaming comedy treasure is a real vintage treat from the Thirties. It is based on a story by Adela Rogers St Johns, who came up with this idea first, but we […]