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Anything Goes *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 9276

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1936 black and white musical Anything Goes [Tops Is the Limit] is a revamped version of the great stage show for the movies, based on the play by Guy Bolton and P […]

Jan, 18

Return to Paradise ** (1953, Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes) – Classic Movie Review 7686

Director Mark Robson’s 1953 Return to Paradise stars Gary Cooper as Mr Morgan, a drifter sailor who lives in romantic bliss on the remote Pacific island of Matareva with island native Maeva (Roberta Haynes) in […]

Oct, 21

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness **** (1958, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens) – Classic Movie Review 6596

Director Mark Robson’s long but satisfying 1958 British drama The Inn of the Sixth Happiness stars Ingrid Bergman, who triumphs over her physical miscasting in a heartwarming turn as Gladys Aylward, the English missionary who […]

Jan, 23

West of Shanghai [The Warlord] *** (1937, Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez, Gordon Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 5628

Director John Farrow’s short (64 minute) 1937 war adventure drama stars Boris Karloff who gives the impression he is hugely enjoying himself cast, as of course he could not be today, as a Chinese warlord, […]

Jun, 18

Rain *** (1932, Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 5339

The two richly enjoyable. extravagant star performances of Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are the main recommendation for Lewis Milestone’s 1932 quick remake for the Somerset Maugham short story Miss Thompson (later retitled Rain), a silent […]

Apr, 23

The Mosquito Coast **** (1986, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 4129

Director Peter Weir’s 1986 adventure movie stars Harrison Ford, who eagerly grasps the nettle of an unusual role for him as an unsympathetic and dangerously obsessive hero – the eccentric and crazed inventor Allie Fox, who […]

Aug, 04

Seven Women [7 Women] **** (1966, Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, Anna Lee, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 3995

John Ford said: ‘Seven Women (1966) is one of my favourite pictures. I thought it was a swell story and a good script.’ But, after three days of filming, original star Patricia Neal had a […]

Jul, 10

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