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Posts Tagged "Paris"

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The Art of Love *** (1965, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson, Elke Sommer, Ethel Merman, Carl Reiner) – Classic Movie Review 10,590

‘Two nimble American rascals turn Paris on its ear!!!’ Screen-writer Carl Reiner’s inventive 1965 Paris-set black comedy The Art of Love about a broke American artist called Paul Sloane (Dick Van Dyke) who fakes suicide […]

Nov, 27

Here Comes the Groom **½ (1951, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton) – Classic Movie Review 10,360

Director Frank Capra’s 1951 musical romantic comedy Here Comes the Groom stars Bing Crosby as singing newspaper reporter Pete Garvey, a foreign correspondent who works in a Paris orphanage. He decides to adopt two of the […]

Sep, 29

Head Over Heels ***½ (1937, Jessie Matthews, Louis Borel, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 9935

Director Sonnie Hale’s 1937 Head Over Heels [Head Over Heels in Love] stars Jessie Matthews as Paris singer Jeanne, who is torn between solid, dependable wireless engineer Pierre (Robert Flemyng) and no-good man-about-town Marcel (Louis […]

Jun, 19

Le Million ***** (1931, Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert) – Classic Movie Review 9915

René Lefèvre stars as Michel, an impoverished Parisian artist who turns Paris upside-down in a desperate search for his winning million florins Dutch lottery ticket, left in the pocket of his old jacket, given away […]

Jun, 15

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne **** (1945, Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette) – Classic Movie Review 9815

Director Robert Bresson’s exquisitely delicate 1945 romantic drama Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [Ladies of the Park] is a renowned vintage long-time French favourite and stars the splendid María Casares, Elina Labourdette and Paul […]

May, 24

Les Bonnes Femmes *** (1960, Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 9729

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1960 black and white romantic mystery drama Les Bonnes Femmes [The Girls] tells the tale of four young women – Jane (Bernadette Lafont), Ginette (Chabrol’s later wife Stéphane Audran), Jacqueline (Clotilde Joano) […]

May, 07

Inspector Maigret [Maigret tend un piège] [Maigret Sets a Trap] **** (1958, Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel, André Valmy, Lino Ventura, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 9543

Jean Gabin gives a tremendous performance as Georges Simenon’s famed pipe-smoking police inspector Maigret, investigating Jack the Ripper-type knife-murders of women in Paris’s seedy Montmartre. Director Jean Delannoy’s extremely satisfying, top-level 1958 French police thriller […]

Mar, 22

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