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Writer-director Brock Williams’s 1947 Gainsborough Pictures studios drama The Root of All Evil stars Phyllis Calvert, who looks unhappy, miscast in a British Joan Crawford-style role as Jeckie Farnish, getting up to dirty business to […]
It is lucky there are Doris Day’s vigour and her sparky way with a tune, plus reliable fun from Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, in the 1954 Warner Bros musical film Lucky Me because it […]
The MGM studio sent in its big star guns for producer Sam Zimbalist’s rousing and entertaining 1940 romantic adventure tale of oil-drilling folk. Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy play Big John McMasters and Square John Sand, wildcatter brawling […]
Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]
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