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Director Irving Cummings’s deliciously bright and campy 1941 musical That Night in Rio stars the formidable trio of Don Ameche, Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. As the tagline tells us, it is filmed in gorgeous […]
Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1957 Silk Stockings is a smart and attractive musical remake of Greta Garbo’s 1939 comedy Ninotchka, this time with Fred Astaire at his effortless best in his last big MGM musical, and […]
Director Elliott Nugent’s 1944 Up in Arms is a remake by The Samuel Goldwyn Company of Eddie Cantor’s 1930 hit Whoopee! this time starring Danny Kaye in his cinema feature film début (after four shorts […]
Director Irving Cummings’s exuberant 1940 Latin American Technicolor musical Down Argentine Way is as light as air and twice as bracing. Above all, it is fun. With the world at war and audiences looking for […]
Something is missing in director John Frankenheimer’s 1986 crime thriller film 52 Pick-Up – credibility, pace, wit and brevity for a start. The Cannon Group remake Elmore Leonard’s 1974 novel just 18 months after their […]
Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s 1999 neo noir crime thriller Payback stars Mel Gibson as tough ex-marine Porter, a hood who is double-crossed and shot in the back by his unfaithful junkie wife Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) and […]
In 1954 director George Marshall recycles his own famous 1939 movie hit Destry Rides Again as a vehicle for Universal’s cowboy star, Audie Murphy, now renaming the work simply Destry. A very nearly shot-by-shot remake […]