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‘The King and Queen of Song… gloriously together again… in a red-blooded romance… of moonlight and music… love and danger… buccaneers and beauties!’ Producer-director Robert Z Leonard’s 1940 MGM musical New Moon is based on […]
For director David Butler’s 1935 family comedy drama The Littlest Rebel, 20th Century Fox put their feisty little seven-year-old star Shirley Temple in another opulent American Civil War melodrama (after The Little Colonel rang the […]
Director George Sherman’s 1955 Count Three and Pray is a very decent little Technicolor CinemaScope Western with a punchy performance by the sometimes too-quiet actor Van Heflin as the homecoming Civil War veteran Luke Fargo, […]
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have fun sending up prison movies in ‘THEIR FIRST FULL LENGTH TALKING PICTURE’. Director James Parrott’s hour-long 1931 black and white comedy Pardon Us (aka Jailbirds) finds Stan Laurel and […]
Director John Ford’s 1941 Great Depression-era comedy drama film Tobacco Road makes a tasty meal of Erskine Caldwell’s novel of Georgia poor farm folk dispossessed of their land. Charley Grapewin and Elizabeth Patterson hold centre stage […]
Elizabeth Taylor enlivens director William Dieterle’s tepid, clichéd 1954 potboiler adventure movie about a romantic triangle on a Ceylon tea plantation, based on the novel by Robert Standish. Taylor plays lovely English rose Ruth Wiley, the new wife […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 MGM film is a daft, but endearingly simple-minded old-style romantic adventure drama movie of love-hate triangle goings-on in the jungle, with Leon Gordon adapting his own play from 1923. Walter Pidgeon stars […]