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Writer-director Frank Tashlin’s 1960 sex-swap gender-bending fairy tale comedy stars Jerry Lewis as Cinderella as a fella. That’s the set-up and the plot has Cinderfella left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother (Dame Judith Anderson) and […]
Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 Japanese adventure is one of Kurosawa’s deservedly admired, classic Samurai movies, and a world cinema landmark. Toshirô Mifune stars as a fearlesss Samurai warrior, General Rokurota Makabe, who during the […]
This 1935 movie of the 1910 operetta Victor Herbert (music) and Rida Johnson Young lyrics) gives Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy one of their best opportunities in the first of their series of very jolly, […]
Boris Karloff continues to battle his odd and uneasy casting as San Francisco Chinese detective James Lee Wong, investigating an oriental princess’s death by poison dart in his hallway, in Monogram Pictures’ intriguing if modest […]
Maureen O’Hara, Vincent Price and Paul Christian [Hubschmid] are happily employed – if not exactly well cast – in director Charles Lamont’s carefree 1949 escapist adventure that provides a most exotic, Technicolorful touch of the […]
French writer-director Jacques Demy withdraws from reality entirely now in his 1970 film – into childhood dreams and Freudian nightmares, both safe and disturbing at the same time. Catherine Deneuve romps through a magic forest […]
Ronald Colman stars in the rousing 1937 swashbuckler movie The Prisoner of Zenda – the first sound version and definitive film of Anthony Hope’s classic novel. Director John Cromwell’s most satisfying and extremely rousing 1937 […]