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Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]
Anything goes certainly here in director Robert Lewis’s 1956 Paramount Pictures remake of Anything Goes, and the first thing that went in Sidney Sheldon’s script is the plot of the great Broadway show by Guy […]
Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1940 Little Men is a quick, well-produced remake of Phil Rosen’s 1935 film Little Men, and is marginally better, with Kay Francis starring as Jo March, the main character in Louisa […]
Damon Runyon’s short story Markie is reworked in director Sidney Lanfield’s 1949 Sorrowful Jones as an amusing vehicle for Bob Hope, spreading his wings in a straight character part as Sorrowful Jones, a bookie who […]
Henry Hathaway began the direction, and the film’s screen-writer Bryan Forbes took over for one week (uncredited), and then Ken Hughes took over as rescue to finish the shooting of the 1964 third film version […]
Director Edmund Goulding’s 1946 black and white film of W Somerset Maugham’s novel Of Human Bondage has the misfortune to follow director John Cromwell’s much more exciting 1934 version of Of Human Bondage with the […]
Charlie’s Angels (2019) is empty-headed adventure comedy hokum, with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska and Elizabeth Banks all pleasant presences and working hard enough but to little avail. They are chasing after some ludicrous […]