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They Got Me Covered *** (1943, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lenore Aubert, Donald MacBride, Walter Catlett, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 7860

It’s Bob Hope versus the Nazis in director David Butler’s amusing, little-known 1943 wartime Washington spy comedy thriller They Got Me Covered about a Gestapo espionage ring planning sabotage. It is a surprise subject for […]

Dec, 01

Storm in a Teacup **** (1937, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7807

Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker and a young Vivien Leigh kick up a storm over an old Scots lady and a dog licence, in directors Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville’s 1937 British clever canine caper Storm […]

Nov, 19

A Private War *** (2018, Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hollander, Greg Wise) – Movie Review

Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary film-maker Matthew Heineman’s first feature film as director, A Private War (2018), is an honourable toast to old-style newspaper journalism, which is fast disappearing along with books, and its backbone, the old-style reporters who […]

Oct, 20

20,000 Years in Sing Sing *** (1932, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 7440

Director Michael Curtiz’s excellent, tough-edged, vintage 1933 prison escape drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing sees Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis crackle in their only ever screen pairing. Tracy was at Fox and then MGM and […]

Aug, 13

Comrade X *** (1940, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Arden, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7411

Hedy Lamarr stars as a beautiful Communist Moscow train driver, who is romanced by American reporter Clark Gable in Soviet Moscow, in MGM’s 1940 film Comrade X. This is much pleasure, as well as quite […]

Aug, 07

Storm Warning *** (1951, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 7,302

Ginger Rogers stands up to the Ku Klux Klan as only she can, with Doris Day as her sister, in the 1951 film noir Storm Warning. Ronald Reagan plays a do-gooding District Attorney. Director Stuart […]

Jul, 17

Living It Up *** (1954, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7267

Director Norman Taurog’s free-wheeling 1954 Technicolor carefree screwball comedy Living It Up stars Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold as The Mayor, Fred Clark, Sheree North and Sig Ruman. Lewis plays Homer Flagg, […]

Jul, 08

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