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Swing High, Swing Low *** (1937, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 11,249

Paramount Pictures’ 1937 black and white romantic comedy drama movie Swing High, Swing Low stars Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray as entertainers in and out of love.  Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1937 Paramount Pictures black and […]

May, 28

The Kid from Brooklyn ** (1946, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden, Walter Abel, Lionel Stander, Fay Bainter) – Classic Movie Review 11,160

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1946 Technicolor musical The Kid from Brooklyn stars Danny Kaye as a mild milkman called Burleigh Sullivan who transforms into a punchy prize-fighter to impress pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle (Virginia […]

May, 03

Diamond Horseshoe **** (1945, Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, Margaret Dumont, William Gaxton) – Classic Movie Review 11,044

Writer-director George Seaton’s 1945 Technicolor treat film Diamond Horseshoe [Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe] is based on the 1928 play The Barker by John Kenyon Nicholson, which has fun with Freudian psychoanalysis, and stars Betty Grable, […]

Mar, 25

Someone at the Door ** (1950, Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh, Yvonne Owen, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,039

‘Let yourself in for a Big Laugh!’ Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British Hammer Films black and white comedy mystery thriller Someone at the Door stars Michael Medwin, Yvonne Owen, Garry Marsh, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green, […]

Mar, 23

Treasure of the Golden Condor ** (1953, Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, George Macready, Anne Bancroft, Fay Wray, Walter Hampden, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 11,009

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1953 Technicolor adventure Treasure of the Golden Condor is 18th-century Latin American costume-drama nonsense with Cornel Wilde as a young Frenchman, Jean-Paul, swindled out of a fortune by his wicked uncle, the Marquis de […]

Mar, 10

Island of Lost Men *** (1939, Anna May Wong, J Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Broderick Crawford, Eric Blore, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 10,746

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]

Jan, 03

Hello Frisco, Hello **** (1943, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar, June Havoc, Ward Bond, George Barbier) – Classic Movie Review 10,735

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1943 20th Century Fox wartime hit film Hello Frisco, Hello is an exceptionally bright and breezy Alice Faye musical in which she gets to sing the sweet Best Original Song Oscar-winner […]

Jan, 01

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