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The Fan *** (1949, Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene) – Classic Movie Review 4,686

Madeleine Carroll is excellent as the scandalous middle-aged Mrs Erlynne in a smooth, civilised, well-dressed film of Oscar Wilde’s 1892 play Lady Windermere’s Fan in 1949 with the cut-down title of The Fan. Producer-director Otto […]

Nov, 23

The Sunshine Boys **** (1975, Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 3930

Walter Matthau and George Burns star in director Herbert Ross’s very lively and amusing 1975 film version of Neil Simon’s play about two aged, feuding vaudeville comics, former partners before they fell out. Jack Benny […]

Jun, 28

Anna Christie *** (1930, Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F Marion, Marie Dressler) – Classic Movie Review 2917

In 1930 a nervous MGM studio advertised their biggest star’s long-delayed début in the talkies rather sensibly with ‘Garbo talks!’ And so, after more than half an hour of screen time, she finally does: “Gif […]

Sep, 19

Anastasia *** (1956, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Sacha Pitoeff) – Classic Movie Review 2650

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1956 movie brought Ingrid Bergman back to Hollywood for a triumphant return after a seven-year gap, unofficially blacklisted and apparently in disgrace with the American public over her extra-marital affair with Italian […]

Jun, 27

Juno and the Paycock *** (1929, Edward Chapman, Sara Allgood, Maire O’Neill, Kathleen O’Regan, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 2290

Director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville make rather heavy weather of their struggle with their 1929 movie adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s doomy successful classic play about a hard-pressed family living in the slums of Dublin […]

Mar, 21

Key Largo ***** (1948, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 1345

Co-writer/director John Huston’s deliciously atmospheric, cynical and world-weary 1948 film noir thriller is the fourth and final film pairing of married actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, after To Have and Have Not (1944), The […]

Jun, 21

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