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The Barefoot Contessa **** (1954, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 3365

Writer-producer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1954 Oscar-winning drama stars Humphrey Bogart as film-maker Harry Dawes, who moulds shoeless gypsy flamenco dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) into a movie legend, after seeing her in a Madrid club. […]

Feb, 15

The Falcon Out West ** (1944, Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 3215

‘There are three things one can never be sure about – horses, the weather and women’ – The Falcon. Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon (Tom Conway) goes out West to investigate the roots of […]

Jan, 02

Flying Down to Rio **** (1933, Gene Raymond, Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2960

Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]

Oct, 05

Vivacious Lady **** (1938, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Beulah Bondi, James Ellison) – Classic Movie Review 2709

George Stevens’s expert and delightful 1938 romantic comedy film Vivacious Lady pairs perfectly cast James Stewart and Ginger Rogers as a conservative professor and the showgirl he impulsively marries. Producer-director George Stevens’s expert and delightful […]

Jul, 19

King Creole **** (1958, Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dean Jagger, Dolores Hart, Vic Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 2198

Just a couple or so of times, Elvis Presley had great film directors to work for and here he is in his third film, which is perhaps his best movie, working with the legendary Oscar-winning […]

Feb, 22

Can-Can ***½ (1959, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2179

Director Walter Lang’s 1960 musical stars Frank Sinatra as a French attorney called François Durnais who talks his old judge buddy Paul Barriere (Maurice Chevalier) into trying to stop the gendarmes closing his girlfriend Simone […]

Feb, 17

Victor Victoria **** (1982, Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1462

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s bubbly and witty 1982 gender-bender musical remake of a 1933 German comedy, Viktor und Viktoria, is huge vivacious fun. It provides an ideal vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews as a struggling female soprano […]

Jul, 22

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