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Posts Tagged "remake"

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The Common Touch *** (1941, Geoffrey Hibbert, Greta Gynt, Raymond Lovell, Harry Welchman, Joyce Howard) Classic Movie Review 12,339

Director John Baxter’s sentimental, well-meaning 1941 British melodrama film The Common Touch is a remake of his 1933 film Doss House and stars Geoffrey Hibbert, Greta Gynt, Raymond Lovell, Harry Welchman, and Joyce Howard. It is about […]

Oct, 28

The Diary of Anne Frank *** (1980, Melissa Gilbert, Maximilian Schell, Joan Plowright, Doris Roberts, James Coco, Scott Jacoby, Clive Revill) – Classic Movie Review 12,332

Melissa Gilbert is excellent as Anne Frank in director Boris Sagal’s strongly cast, stalwart, moving 1980 TV movie remake of the 1959 feature film The Diary of Anne Frank. It re-tells the real-life story of […]

Oct, 20

The Cry of the Owl *** (2009, Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner, James Gilbert, Caroline Dhavernas) – Classic Movie Review 12,235

Director Jamie Thraves’s 2009 psychological crime thriller film The Cry of the Owl is a really rather satisfactory English language remake of Claude Chabrol’s 1987 French film Le Crie du Hibou, adapting Patricia Highsmith’s 1962 […]

Jul, 17

The Boy Cried Murder ** (1966, Fraser MacIntosh, Veronica Hurst, Phil Brown) – Classic Movie Review 12,089

The 1966 thriller film The Boy Cried Murder is a remake of the much admired 1949 film The Window, based on Cornell Woolrich’s novelette. Former child actor turned director George P Breakston’s uninspired 1966 British/ […]

Apr, 29

You Can’t Run Away from It * (1956, June Allyson, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 11,969

Producer-director Dick Powell’s 1956 musical comedy film You Can’t Run Away from It stars June Allyson and Jack Lemmon, and is a remake of the Oscar-winning 1934 film It Happened One Night, which had previously […]

Mar, 01

Fun with Dick and Jane ** (2005, Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 11,936

Director Dean Parisot’s 2005 American black comedy remake film Fun with Dick and Jane stars Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni, and is written by Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller, based on Gerald Gaiser’s story and […]

Feb, 16

Rose Marie *** (1954, Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,865

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1954 MGM musical Rose-Marie is the third movie version of the great 1924 Oscar Hammerstein II-Otto A Harbach operetta, this time filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor. It stars Ann Blyth, Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas. French-Canadian backwoods […]

Jan, 20

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