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Posts Tagged "musical remake"

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You Can’t Run Away from It * (1956, June Allyson, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 11,969

Producer-director Dick Powell’s 1956 musical comedy film You Can’t Run Away from It stars June Allyson and Jack Lemmon, and is a remake of the Oscar-winning 1934 film It Happened One Night, which had previously […]

Mar, 01

The Farmer Takes a Wife * (1953, Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 10,668

Director Henry Levin’s 1953 Twentieth Century Fox comedy musical romance The Farmer Takes a Wife is a plushly produced but uninvolving musical rehash of the sweet 1935 original The Farmer Takes a Wife. It is […]

Dec, 14

Lost Horizon (1973, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 10,524

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]

Nov, 10

Summer Holiday **** (1948, Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 7355

MGM’s boy star Mickey Rooney finally comes of age at 27 in ace director Rouben Mamoulian’s delightfully handsome and extravagant 1948 Technicolor musical rejig of Eugene O’Neill’s famed play Ah Wilderness! about a Danville, Connecticut, […]

Jul, 27

My Sister Eileen **** (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar, Horace McMahon, Dick York, Tommy Rall) – Classic Movie Review 7260

Wacky Betty Garrett and alluring Janet Leigh star as Ohio country girls Ruth and Eileen Sherwood in co-writer/ director Richard Quine’s 1955 musical remake of Rosalind Russell’s 1942 comedy My Sister Eileen about the adventures […]

Jul, 06

Step Lively *** (1944, Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Jeffreys. Walter Slezak, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 6588

Director Tim Whelan’s 1944 RKO movie showcase for Frank Sinatra is a pleasingly enjoyable follow-up to Higher and Higher (1943), reuniting star and director. It an engaging musical remake of the Marx Brothers’ 1938 film […]

Jan, 21

Goodbye, Mr Chips ***½ (1969, Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Michael Bryant, Alison Leggatt, George Baker, Jack Hedley, Siân Phillips) –  Classic Movie Review 6338

Director Herbert Ross’s expensive ($9 million) big-scale musical version of the famous 1939 Robert Donat weepie was a dangerously risky idea in the radical days of 1969 and it duly flopped despite the MGM fanfare […]

Dec, 01

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