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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
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- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
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For the Boys **** (1991, Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 9681
Director Mark Rydell’s 1991 For the Boys is a lavish, old-fashioned musical drama vehicle for Bette Midler as Dixie Leonard, an American showgirl with a heart of gold and a will of iron, who teams […]
Lady Sings the Blues **** (1972, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor) – Classic Movie Review 9,634
Director Sidney J Furie’s 1972 musical drama film Lady Sings the Blues is Diana Ross’s finest hour in the movies, acting her socks off as the great but tragic blues singer Billie Holiday. The film’s […]
Mammy *** (1930, Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Lowell Sherman, Louise Dresser, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 9534
Al Jolson stars as minstrel singer Al Fuller, in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky 1930 behind-the-scenes theatre musical Mammy, with a shooting, an Irving Berlin score and Louise Dresser all thrown in as Mammy. Jolson has […]
Strictly Sinatra ** (2001, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald, Brian Cox, Alun Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 9,492
Ian Hart from Liverpool manages a decent Scots accent and a nifty vocal impression of Frank Sinatra, as Toni Cocozza, a Scottish-Italian club crooner obsessed with Ol’ Blue Eyes, in writer-director Peter Capaldi’s 2001 British drama […]
Elvis: That’s the Way It Is **** (1970, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9305
Here in Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) is Elvis Presley in regal splendour rehearsing and performing in 1970 on his first concert tour since 1957. Director Denis Sanders looks at Presley backstage, polishing […]
Elvis on Tour *** (1972, Elvis Presley) – Classic Movie Review 9304
Elvis Presley’s last film Elvis on Tour (1972) is ‘a close-up of the birth and life of an American phenomenon’, according to producer-directors Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel (who also made Mad Dogs and Englishmen). […]
The Texas Rangers *** (1936, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 9221
Producer-director King Vidor’s 1936 Western film The Texas Rangers is a spruce outing for the familiar old yarn about the two former outlaw cowpoke buddies (Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie) who sign up to take to […]