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Going Bye-Bye! **** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch) – Classic Movie Review 7448

Director Charles [Charley] H Rogers’s 1934 comedy Going Bye-Bye! steers Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy smoothly to one of their finest short films. Laurel and Hardy are key witnesses in the jailing for the rest of his […]

Aug, 16

Exclusive *** (1937, Charles Ruggles, Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 7223

Director Alexander Hall’s bright, lively, strongly cast 1937 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Exclusive is an authentic-seeming melodrama about rival newspapers, enriched with showy performances from Charles Ruggles as newspaper proprietor Tod Swain and Frances […]

Jun, 26

The Lawless Nineties ** (1936, John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Harry Woods, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Al Bridge, Fred Toones, Etta McDaniel, Lane Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 7133

Director Joseph Kane’s modest and familiar but intriguing and moderately enjoyable 1936 pre-superstardom John Wayne Republic studios short black and white B-Western casts The Duke as Federal Agent John Tipton, who comes undercover to Wyoming […]

Jun, 08

The Post **** (2017, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood) – Movie Review

Director Steven Spielberg’s conscientious and involving if not quite inspired biographical historical drama tells the dynamite story of The Washington Post newspaper publisher Kay Graham and her gung-ho editor Ben Bradlee, who make the decision to risk […]

Jan, 20

Cimarron * (1960, Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O’Connell, Vic Morrow, Russ Tamblyn, Mercedes McCambridge) – Classic Movie Review 6488

Director Anthony Mann’s 1961 remake of the classic 1931 Western film Cimarron, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, is slow, overblown and empty, running a plodding 147 minutes. It is a real disappointment, despite […]

Dec, 29

Big Town ** (1946, Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Lowery, Byron Barr, Nana Bryant, Charles Arnt) – Classic Movie Review 6344

‘RADIO’S DYNAMIC RACKET BUSTER…on the Screen!‘ The first film in producers William H Pine and William C Thomas’s series based on the Big Town radio series introduces The Illustrated Press’s managing editor Steve Wilson (Phillip […]

Dec, 02

Big Town After Dark *** (1947, Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett, Joe Sawyer, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 6343

‘POLICE SLAY GAMBLING CZAR…AS EDITOR ESCAPES DEATH! ‘ Director William C Thomas’s sharp and intriguing 1947 film noir is written by Whitman Chambers and stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis and Ann Gillis. There are plenty of thrills […]

Dec, 02

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