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The 1956 Italian comedy-drama film The Montecarlo Story [Montecarlo] is the German-born Marlene Dietrich’s sole Italian movie. Writer-director Samuel A Taylor’s resolute 1956 bid to revive the style of Thirties sophisticated comedy stars Marlene Dietrich, […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1969 comedy Monte Carlo or Bust! [Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies] stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes, […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1930 Paramount Pictures black and white film Monte Carlo is a witty, delightful early talkie musical starring Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara, who, though about to wed silly Duke Otto von […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1960 French Riviera black and white caper movie Seven Thieves stars Edward G Robinson as old reprobate professor Theo Wilkins, who leads a gang of thieves in a cleverly constructed plot to […]
Director Vincent McEveety’s 1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo is the third of the four original movies featuring Walt Disney’s cute Volkswagen Beetle love bug. This one sees Herbie off to compete in the Paris […]
An attractively smooth performance by the star Ronald Colman, the views of Monte Carlo and gaming details keep director Stephen Roberts’s lightweight 1935 piece intriguing and entertaining. Colman plays a Russian emigré prince who goes […]
Jessie Matthews lights up director Victor Saville’s delightful 1935 musical comedy, the first remake of Reinhold Schünzel’s 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria, which was eventually to wind up as Julie Andrews’s property as Victor […]