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The Calendar **** (1948, John McCallum, Sonia Holm, Greta Gynt, Raymond Lovell, Leslie Dwyer, Felix Aylmer, Noel Howlett, Charles Victor, Barry Jones, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 12,668
The cheerful 1948 British Edgar Wallace racetrack mystery film The Calendar finds a titled-lady horse trainer (Sonia Holm) helping her penniless racehorse owner boss (John McCallum) provide evidence that he didn’t fix his horse to […]
From Hell to Heaven *** (1933, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Sidney Blackmer, Adrienne Ames, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 12,615
The 1933 ensemble drama film From Hell to Heaven is Paramount’s answer to Grand Hotel, set at a racetrack hotel where Colly Tanner (Carole Lombard) bets her virtue on a nag. ‘PANORAMIC DRAMA OF HUMAN GREED […]
Hot to Trot (1988, Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy (voice), Virginia Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,949
Director Michael Dinner’s 1988 Hot To Trot is a return to that awful old comedy idea about a talking horse and it predictably produces no laughs (or is that neigh laughs?). John Candy voices Don, […]
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands *** (1948, Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton) – Classic Movie Review 9690
The excellent 1948 film noir thriller Kiss the Blood Off My Hands stars Burt Lancaster as a fugitive who killed a man in a fight and hides away in a lonely nurse (Joan Fontaine)’s apartment. […]
The Lemon Drop Kid *** (1951, Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, William Frawley) – Classic Movie Review 8705
Director Sidney Lanfield’s pleasing 1951 black and white comedy stars Bob Hope as New York City swindler Sidney Milburn, aka The Lemon Drop Kid, a race-track tout who owes big bucks to a gangster crook […]
The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640
Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]
The Criminal [Concrete Jungle] **** (1960, Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 5843
Director Joseph Losey’ s dark 1960 British New Wave film-noir-style thriller takes a thoroughly engrossing Expressionist look at the UK criminal world of the day. Stanley Baker is on fine form as Johnny Bannion, the […]