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- Four Friends [Georgia’s Friends] [Georgia] *** (1981, Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Michael Huddleston, Jim Metzler, Reed Birney) – Classic Movie Review 13,476
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Posts Tagged "screwball comedy"
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Man’s Favorite Sport? *** (1964, Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy) – Classic Movie Review 3923
Despite the teasing, possibly sexy title, Man’s Favorite Sport turns out to be fishing – of course! – in producer-director Howard Hawks’s thin but likeable 1964 comedy. Rock Hudson stars as Roger Willoughby, a fishing tackle […]
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622
Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]
The Lady Eve ***** (1941, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2603
‘You see, Hopsie, you don’t know very much about girls. The best ones aren’t as good as you probably think they are and the bad ones aren’t as bad.’ Writer-director Preston Sturges’s brilliant 1941 screwball […]
Nothing Sacred ***** (1937, Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 1,951
The delightful 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred stars Carole Lombard as the supposedly sick Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont, and Fredric March as a sleazy New York reporter creating sob stories out of her […]
The Wrong Box *** (1966, John Mills, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 1903
Julia Finsbury (Nanette Newman): ‘My father was a missionary. He was eaten by his Bible class.’ Producer-director Bryan Forbes’s unusual and likeable, delightfully daft 1966 British period screwball dark comedy is ‘suggested by’ Robert Louis Stevenson […]
The Smallest Show on Earth ***** (1957, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles) – Classic Movie Review 1643
Small is beautiful. Happy days with the ramshackle, debt-ridden old London fleapit cinema called The Bijou in the 1957 Brit comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Director Basil Dearden’s adorable 1957 British comedy classic […]
The Talk of the Town ***** (1942, Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Ronald Colman) – Classic Movie Review 1308
Co-producer/director George Stevens’s 1942 classic love triangle comedy drama stars Jean Arthur as schoolteacher Nora Shelley, who is in love with both escaped murder suspect Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant), who’s hiding in her attic, and […]