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‘It’s your greatest screen show with a De Sylva lining!’ Bob Hope is on top form as Jim Taylor, a dupe of his machinating bosses (Frank Albertson, Donald MacBride) at the Louisiana Purchase Company, in […]
Director Budd Boetticher’s acceptable 1953 Technicolor underwater action adventure drama City Beneath the Sea stars Anthony Quinn and Robert Ryan as daredevil deep-sea divers Tony Bartlett and Brad Carlton arriving in Jamaica to salvage the […]
Writer-director Blake Edwards takes his revenge on Hollywood in his 1981 black farce S.O.B. about a film producer’s ploy to turn a flop into a hit: get Julie Andrews to bare her breasts! S.O.B. is […]
The Love Test is an early Michael Powell 1935 romantic comedy about love shenanigans among a laboratory’s research chemists, who plot to make their disliked new boss, Mary Lee (Judy Gunn), fall for John Gregg […]
Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty star in Mike Nichols’s 1975 flop farcical comedy The Fortune as bumbling conmen who abduct an heiress. Stockard Channing is charming and amusing as the heiress. ‘It takes three to […]
Director Ron Howard’s frantic 1982 comedy Night Shift stars Henry Winkler as Chuck Lumley, who takes a job as an attendant in a macabre morgue and gets mixed up with crazy, obnoxious partner Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), […]
Barry Newman stars in Fear Is the Key as the hard-bitten adventurer John Talbot, who sets about plotting an elaborate scheme to avenge the deaths of his wife and child in a plane crash. Alistair […]