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The Richest Girl in the World *** (1934, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray) – Classic Movie Review 8230

Director William A Seiter’s The Richest Girl in the World is a welcome forgotten movie from 1934, starring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Fay Wray. It is a bubbly little, typically Thirties, romantic screwball comedy […]

Mar, 11

The Life of Jimmy Dolan ** (1933, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee) – Classic Movie Review 8024

Director Archie Mayo’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama The Life of Jimmy Dolan [The Kid’s Last Fight in GB] stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who comes out on fighting form and gives an […]

Jan, 16

Miss Julie ** (1999, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7713

Writer-producer-director Mike Figgis’s 1999 British film Miss Julie is an interesting but stagey and sluggish rendition of August Strindberg’s world classic play, with actory performances, too many hand-held camera and too-large close-ups, in which the […]

Oct, 28

The Walking Stick ** (1970, David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy Mayne, Francesca Annis, Bridget Turner, Emlyn Williams, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7585

Director Eric Till’s 1970 British movie The Walking Stick is an only middling suspense thriller. But there is very decent playing by David Hemmings as a handsome, smooth London crook called Leigh Hartley and Samantha […]

Sep, 17

La Tendre Ennemie [Tender Enemy] *** (1936, Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana) – Classic Movie Review 7502

Co-writer/ producer/ director Max Ophüls’s diverting 1936 French film La Tendre Ennemie (Tender Enemy) tells the charming tale about three dead men, ghosts who encounter each other again in the afterlife and end up dissecting their […]

Aug, 26

Hollywood Party *** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Mickey Mouse, The Three Stooges) – Classic Movie Review 7449

Take almost the entire MGM comedy team (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, and The Three Stooges), throw them into an all-star film in which virtually every comedy director on the lot […]

Aug, 16

Stolen Holiday *** (1937, Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7419

Director Michael Curtiz’s impeccably presented, impressively played and well scripted 1937 romantic crime drama Stolen Holiday is based on a fictionalised version of the exploits of real-life Russian Jewish financier and conman Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky. […]

Aug, 09

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