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Posts Tagged "second remake"
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Rose Marie *** (1954, Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,865
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1954 MGM musical Rose-Marie is the third movie version of the great 1924 Oscar Hammerstein II-Otto A Harbach operetta, this time filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor. It stars Ann Blyth, Howard Keel and Fernando Lamas. French-Canadian backwoods […]
Body Snatchers ***½ (1993, Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Christine Elise, R Lee Ermey, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 11,694
Abel Ferrara’s taut and tense 1993 sci-fi horror film Body Snatchers stars Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney and Meg Tilly. It is only loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack […]
Of Human Bondage * (1964, Laurence Harvey, Kim Novak, Nanette Newman, Roger Livesey, Jack Hedley, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9156
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 […]
I Died a Thousand Times *** (1955, Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lon Chaney Jr, Lee Marvin, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 6443
An iconic Fifties cast adds huge allure to the intriguing 1955 cult crime thriller I Died a Thousand Times, the second remake of High Sierra, a film noir shot in CinemaScope and Warnercolor. Director Stuart […]
The Merry Widow ** (1952, Fernando Lamas, Lana Turner, Richard Haydn, Una Merkel, Thomas Gomez, John Abbott, Marcel Dalio, King Donovan, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 5810
Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]
The Jazz Singer ** (1980, Laurence Olivier, Neil Diamond, Lucie Arnaz) – Classic Movie Review 4992
The Jazz Singer’s sentimental story exploring the clash of the lure of showbiz versus the pull of family duty is impossibly dated. But director Richard Fleischer’s 1980 third film version of Sampson Raphaelson’s antique play […]
A Star Is Born **** (1976, Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 1,126
The hit 1976 musical film A Star Is Born stars Barbra Streisand in her prime and Kris Kristofferson in graceful support, both Golden Globe Award winners. Barbra won an Oscar for Best Song. Co-writer/director Frank Pierson’s […]