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Cabin in the Sky **** (1943, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 8315

The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]

Mar, 31

Godspell *** (1973, Victor Garber, David Haskell, Jerry Sroka, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, Robin Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 8313

Director David Greene’s 1973 film of the deliberately naïve hit musical Godspell (a stage hit for David Essex in Britain) by Stephen Schwartz (music) and John Michael Tebelak (lyrics) turns the story of Christ into […]

Mar, 30

A Day of Fury ** (1956, Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Carl Benton Reid, John Dehner, Jan Merlin, James Bell) – Classic Movie Review 8311

Director Harmon Jones’s sturdy 1956 Universal Pictures Western film A Day of Fury stars Dale Robertson as the pistol-slinging cowboy Jagade, unhappy with the cleaned-up town where he dwells, who decides to reopen the saloon […]

Mar, 29

The Man from Utah ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo, Edward Peil Sr, Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8235

Young John Wayne sits tall in the saddle in director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Man from Utah, another average, low-budget Thirties Western from the Duke. In the story and screenplay by Lindsley Parsons, Wayne […]

Mar, 13

At Long Last Love ** (1975, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Duilio Del Prete, John Hillerman, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 8137

With the world at his feet after the brilliant The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc? and Paper Moon, writer-producer-director Peter Bogdanovich wanted to pay homage to the Thirties Hollywood heyday musical, and Fred Astaire […]

Feb, 15

Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809

Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]

Nov, 19

Lucky Night ** (1939, Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Joseph Allen, Henry O’Neill, Douglas Fowley, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 7,742

Myrna Loy made just one film with Robert Taylor: MGM’s fly-away bit of fluff, the 1939 comedy film Lucky Night. ‘THEY’RE IN LOVE! YOU’RE IN LUCK! IT’S HAPPY-GO-LUCKY’ Likeable, lightweight MGM stars Myrna Loy and […]

Nov, 02

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