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Producer-director Otto Preminger’s superb 1962 political thriller boasts a wonderful array of old Sixties star character actors doing their unique and eccentric things. Despite all the valiant efforts of Henry Fonda as Robert Leffingwell, Walter Pidgeon […]
Director Stanley Donen’s tasty 1950 movie finds the MGM studios in the mood for cashing in the worldwide publicity and frenzy surrounding Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip with a cute musical with Fred Astaire and […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed film is the 1946 sophisticated romantic comedy Cluny Brown, set in pre-World War Two England, getting its laughs out of satirising the smugness of British high society. Jennifer Jones stars as […]
Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]
Director Otto Preminger’s ambitious 1960 historical epic film Exodus about the birth of the state of Israel just never seems to end at 217 minutes. Comedian Mort Sahl, attending a preview, stood up and shouted: […]
Hurd Hatfield stars in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray as the beautiful young man who unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil to keep his youthful beauty while his portrait in the […]
The original 1960 Ocean’s Eleven is a very relaxed and agreeable comedy-crime caper with style to spare. Admittedly, at 127 minutes, it’s over long, too slackly paced, and the thin, fantasy thriller plot takes a […]
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