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Variety Jubilee *** (1943, Reginald Purdell, Ellis Irving, Lesley Brook, George Robey, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 12,644
The very entertaining 1943 British musical film Variety Jubilee depicts life in a London music hall from 1892 to World War Two, and is of great archival and nostalgia interest thanks to the precious glimpses […]
Zaza *** (1938, Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr) – Classic Movie Review 8715
Director George Cukor’s 1938 musical romantic drama Zaza stars Claudette Colbert, who puts new life into the old theatrical workhorse story about the 1900s French vaudeville singer Zaza (Colbert) who has a sad love affair […]
Champagne Charlie **** (1944, Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Austin Trevor, Jean Kent, Guy Middleton, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 7080
Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1944 British comedy Champagne Charlie is lit up by its genius in providing perfect roles for Ealing Studios’ resident London comedians Trinder and Holloway in an original screenplay tale of rival music-hall singers […]
Quai des Orfèvres **** (1947, Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin) – Classic Movie Review 6642
Co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s beautifully acted and exquisitely crafted 1947 French policier thriller Quai des Orfrèvres is outstanding even in a genre the French regularly do so well. In Paris’s equivalent to Scotland Yard, the 36, […]
The Clairvoyant ***½ (1935, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter, Mary Clare, Athole Stewart, Ben Field, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 4267
Director Maurice Elvey’s excellent little 1935 British suspense thriller stars Claude Rains as the apparently phoney psychic and mind reader Maximus who finds that he is really able to predict a train crash. The fake music-hall […]
Random Harvest **** (1942, Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Susan Peters, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Rhys Williams, Margaret Wycherly) – Classic Movie Review 3127
That most regal of stars Greer Garson brings her warm and gracious patrician presence to director Mervyn LeRoy’s much-loved 1942 MGM version of the famous story by James Hilton, author of Lost Horizon. It was […]
The Pleasure Garden *** (1925, Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander, John Stuart) – Classic Movie Review 2104
In June 2013, nine restored versions of Alfred Hitchcock’s early silent films, including his 1925 first completed film as director, The Pleasure Garden, were shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theatre. Known as […]