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Unmasked *** (1950, Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 11,490

Republic Pictures’ lively 1950 black and white crime thriller film Unmasked stars Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr and Hillary Brooke. ‘Smeared by Scandal that led to MURDER! SHOCK STORY of a VICIOUS RACKET! SHAKEDOWN […]

Aug, 18

Once Is Not Enough ** (1975, Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri, Gary Conway, Brenda Vaccaro, Deborah Raffin) – Classic Movie Review 8710

Director Guy Green’s campy 1975 Once Is Not Enough is a bad enough adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s gossipy, sexy novel, in which struggling old Hollywood mogul Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) weds rich Deidre Granger (Alexis Smith) […]

Jul, 15

Footlight Parade ***** (1933, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell) – Classic Movie Review 5891

Director Lloyd Bacon’s classic 1933 Warner Bros backstage musical is one of the best of its vivacious, toe-tapping kind. It has a quintessential putting-on-a-show plot, in which an out-of-work Broadway producer called Chester Kent (played by […]

Aug, 10

Dancing Lady *** (1933, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 5,783

A lovely cast spruces up director Robert Z Leonard’s fizzy 1933 musical romantic comedy film Dancing Lady, with a dancing Joan Crawford choosing between romeos Clark Gable and Franchot Tone, while hoofing it with débuting […]

Jul, 18

Room Service **** (1938, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson, Donald MacBride) – Classic Movie Review 4410

Director William A Seiter’s 1938 movie is an amusing Marx Brothers comedy, less zany and frantic than some of their earlier frantic farces, but still packed with funny sight gags and Groucho’s witty one-liners. Despite […]

Sep, 25

Till the Clouds Roll By **** (1946, Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer) – Classic Movie Review 3608

Director Richard Whorf’s striking 1946 MGM musical is a tribute to the composer/song-writer Jerome Kern, who is played by Robert Walker. The movie starts with the premiere of Show Boat and flashes back to Kern’s […]

Apr, 24

42nd Street ***** (1933, Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 3057

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1933 movie virtually created, certainly established for all time the clichés of the backstage musical genre. Despite its great, venerable age, 42nd Street is still faster, funnier and brighter – and simply just […]

Nov, 14

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