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Around the World in 80 Days **** (1956, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 2452
Director Michael Anderson’s 1956 Technicolor epic action adventure comedy film triumphed on Academy Award night, winning five rather undeserved Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. Producer-showman Michael Todd, a […]
Gambit *** (1966, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 2417
Director Ronald Neame’s entertaining, modish 1966 comedy thriller Gambit stars Michael Caine in his first Hollywood movie, made at Universal Studios, California. It casts him as Harry, an ambitious London cat burglar who embroils dancer […]
Mrs Winterbourne *** (1996, Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 2259
Director Richard Benjamin’s 1996 comedy is a wayward and unwieldly but nevertheless still appealing fairy tale. It is a much-changed version of a Cornell Woolrich/William Irish novel (‘I Married a Dead Man’) and Barbara Stanwyck’s 1950 […]
Can-Can ***½ (1959, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2179
Director Walter Lang’s 1960 musical stars Frank Sinatra as a French attorney called François Durnais who talks his old judge buddy Paul Barriere (Maurice Chevalier) into trying to stop the gendarmes closing his girlfriend Simone […]
The Apartment ***** (1960, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray) – Classic Movie Review 1241
‘That’s the way it crumbles… cookie-wise.’ – C.C. Baxter. Co-writer/producer/director Billy Wilder’s delightful bitter-sweet comedy 1960 classic stars Jack Lemmon as Calvin Clifford (C C) ‘Buddy Boy’ Baxter. It is Wilder’s triumphant follow-up to Some Like […]
Being There ***** (1979, Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart) – Classic Movie Review 819
Director Hal Ashby’s extremely witty and deliciously satirical 1979 black-comedy gives Peter Sellers a wonderful chance to create a serious character in his penultimate film as an illiterate, TV-mad (‘I like to watch’), simple gardener […]
The Celluloid Closet **** (1995, Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Gore Vidal, Farley Granger, Harvey Fierstein, Quentin Crisp, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks) – Classic Film Review 656
Joint directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s 1995 invaluable documentary is a revealing and entertaining look at cinema’s 100 years of hidden agendas. Armistead Maupin’s screenplay is based on Vito Russo’s landmark book on gays […]