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Director Clyde A Bruckman and producer Hal Roach’s 1927 Putting Pants on Philip is a swish Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy silent 20-minute two-reeler short film, in which Ollie (as the pompous J Piedmont Mumblethunder) has […]
The ageing Clark Gable announced that he was too old to play romantic leading roles and would be looking for different kinds of parts after But Not for Me (1959), but his next film is […]
Writer-director John Hughes’s 1989 comedy stars chubby John Candy as the amiable bachelor slob of the title, who is called in as a last resort to look after his sister-in-law Cindy (Elaine Bromka)’s three sharp-as-knives […]
Casey Affleck is outstanding as Lee Chandler, a New England uncle who is legally supposed to take care of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick ‘Patti’ (Lucas Hedges) when the boy’s father (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly and makes him guardian in […]
Producer-director Morton DaCosta’s 1958 Warner Bros comedy drama Auntie Mame is the musical Mame without the music, in which an unconventional, free-thinking socialite aunt adopts an orphan in the inter-war years when her brother dies. Based on […]
The original 1967 Casino Royale movie is a huge-scale, vastly costly James Bond spoof, starring David Niven as British secret agent Sir James Bond, who is called out of retirement after the death of M […]
‘What the Dickens have they done to Scrooge?… They’ve put him in a big, big musical.’ Well that was risky advertising, huh? Director Ronald Neame’s 1970 movie is quite a jolly musical version of A […]
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