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The Seventh Victim **** (1943, Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Isabel Jewell, Hugh Beaumont, Jean Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 3779

The legendary chiller king Val Lewton produces director Mark Robson’s deliciously brooding and sinister 1943 film noir-style melodrama about a group of Satanists in Greenwich Village uncovered by the heroine Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter), after she arrives […]

May, 29

The Man Who Played God [The Silent Voice] *** (1932, George Arliss, Bette Davis, Louise Closser Hale, Violet Heming, Ivan F Simpson, Wade Boteler) – Classic Movie Review 3771

Director John G Adolfi’s mawkish, heart-tugging 1932 movie The Man Who Played God [The Silent Voice] stars George Arliss as Montgomery Royle, a concert pianist who goes deaf after an explosion, and is plunged into despair […]

May, 25

Ragtime **** (1981, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E Rollins Jr, James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, Pat O’Brien, Brad Dourif) – Classic Movie Review 3664

Director Milos Forman’s 1981 drama tempted the 81-year-old James Cagney out of retirement for one final appearance in the cinema, though he made one more TV movie, Terrible Joe Moran, in 1984. He had not […]

May, 06

The Wiz ** (1978, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 3629

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1978 movie version of the hit Broadway show, an all-African American musical of The Wizard of Oz, is generally much maligned and unloved. It was advertised as ‘The Motown remake of The […]

Apr, 29

Broadway Melody of 1940 **** (1940, Fred Astaire, George Murphy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3627

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 musical brings the series of four Broadway Melody movies to an end in great style with Fred Astaire and George Murphy kicking up a storm as Johnny Brett and King Shaw, […]

Apr, 27

Broadway Melody of 1938 **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3626

Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]

Apr, 27

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 3620

Director George B Seitz’s entertaining 1940 ninth film in the MGM comedy series, Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, finds Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is still chasing pretty MGM starlets. Hooray for Judy Garland in a charismatic […]

Apr, 26

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