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Another Woman **** (1988, Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner, Gene Hackman, Betty Buckley, John Houseman, Sandy Dennis, David Ogden Stiers, Philip Bosco, Harris Yulin) – Classic Movie Review 6466

Gena Rowlands is superb as a middle-aged college professor reassessing her life, in Woody Allen’s 1988 serious relationships drama film Another Woman. Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1988 serious relationships drama film Another Woman stars Gena Rowlands who […]

Dec, 24

Come Blow Your Horn *** (1963, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bill, Lee J Cobb, Molly Picon) – Classic Movie Review 6454

Director Bud Yorkin’s 1962 comedy stars Frank Sinatra as Alan Baker, a bachelor who finds his swinging lover lifestyle is cramped when his little brother Buddy (Tony Bill, in his début) tries to emulate it. […]

Dec, 22

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond **** (1960, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 6430

Director Budd Boetticher’s classic cult 1960 gangster B-movie, with lots of action and an authoritative, career-best performance by Ray Danton as the hoodlum Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond in prohibition-era Twenties New York, deserves its fame and […]

Dec, 19

BUtterfield 8 ** (1960, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 6417

Elizabeth Taylor won the 1961 Best Actress Oscar as Gloria Wandrous, a beautiful New York fashion model and classy call girl with problems, in director Daniel Mann’s 1960 drama based on the novel by John […]

Dec, 17

Where the Sidewalk Ends **** (1950, Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully, Karl Malden, Ruth Donnelly, Craig Stevens, Neville Brand) – Classic Movie Review 6366

Director Otto Preminger’s excellent 1950 film noir thriller stars Dana Andrews as Detective Sergeant Mark Dixon, a violent cop who accidentally beats to death a suspect in a robbery case and tries to frame a […]

Dec, 07

Life with Father **** (1947, William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Martin Milner, Jimmy Lydon, Emma Dunn, Moroni Olsen) – Classic Movie Review 6314

Clarence Day Jr’s autobiographical reminiscences of his family life at the turn of the last century was a Broadway smash, and director Michael Curtiz’s warm and witty 1947 film brings all of its appeal intact […]

Nov, 25

The War Between Men and Women ** (1972, Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6236

Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1972 movie is an interesting but uncomfortable mix of comedy, drama, romance, sentiment and seriousness, loosely based on James Thurber’s writings and drawings. Jack Lemmon plays Peter Wilson, a cartoonist going blind, […]

Nov, 12

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