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The Sad Sack * (1957, Jerry Lewis, Phyllis Kirk, Peter Lorre, Liliane Montevecchi, David Wayne, Joe Mantell, Gene Evans) – Classic Movie Review 11,590

Director George Marshall’s 1957 Paramount Pictures comedy film The Sad Sack stars Jerry Lewis and is based on the Harvey Comics character of the same title, created by George Baker. Lewis pops up again as […]

Sep, 20

The Sheltering Sky *** (1990, Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7834

Debra Winger and John Malkovich play an American couple, playwright Kit Moresby and her husband composer Port Moresby, travelling in Morocco in 1947, who go abroad to revitalise their relationship but instead face physical and moral […]

Nov, 26

Ishtar * (1987, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7218

Warren Beatty defends the 1987 mega-flop Ishtar as ‘a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman. And I think it’s funny.’ Disaster struck writer-director Elaine May’s daft little 1987 comedy Ishtar […]

Jun, 24

The Captain’s Paradise *** (1953, Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Bull, Charles Goldner) – Classic Movie Review 5018

Producer-director Anthony Kimmins’s welcome 1953 British black and white comedy The Captain’s Paradise stars Alec Guinness as Henry St James, the ferryboat captain happily chugging between Gibraltar and Tangiers, enjoying the bigamous luxury of different […]

Feb, 10

Morocco ***** (1930, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 4262

Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama Morocco stars Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, and Adolphe Menjou. It is based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny, though the on-screen credits state ‘From the play […]

Aug, 28

Saadia *** (1953, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Wanda Rotha) – Classic Movie Review 3495

Modern medicine meets its match in traditional Moroccan magic when the French doctor Henrik (Mel Ferrer) falls for a wild, strange local Arab girl called Saadia (Rita Gam) whom he saves from sickness and the […]

Mar, 23

Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] ***** (1967, Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Ahmed Belhachmi, Luciano Bartoli) – Classic Movie Review 3273

Writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s thrilling 1967 Italian movie Oedipus Rex [Edipo Re] is Oedipus complex. The star of Pasolini’s first film, Accattone (1961), Franco Citti takes the title role of Oedipus in this beautiful filming […]

Jan, 16

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