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Director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1945 comedy The Bullfighters teams Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy for their last American film together, in which they star as American private detectives in Mexico City on the trail of […]
Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy movie Our Relations is a clever, funny comedy of endless errors from a story by W W Jacobs, The Money Box, with many fine sequences, especially […]
Frankenstein director James Whale has a whale of a time with his 1934 classy little screwball romantic comedy By Candlelight about a lady’s maid, Marie (Elissa Landi), who meets a butler/ valet Josef (Paul Lukas) on a train […]
Director René Clair’s 1944 American fantasy film It Happened Tomorrow stars Dick Powell as Larry Stevens, the lucky 1890s newspaper obituary writer and reporter who meets a mysterious ghostly deceased newspaper man called Pop Benson (John Philliber) who has the […]
Director Garson Kanin’s beguiling 1939 comedy stars Ginger Rogers as the shopgirl Polly Parrish and David Niven as David Merlin, the son of the department store owner (Charles Coburn). The two are assumed to be […]
The Americans remake yet another French comedy (the 1972 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) to provide a fun role for Tom Hanks as Richard, a violinist who cycles to his engagements, taken […]
Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]