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Director William Dieterle’s 1964 comedy drama was produced by Ginger Rogers, who also gives a lacklustre performance as a bordello madam, and her husband William Marshall in the Caribbean in 1964 but withdrawn after its […]
Director James Parrott’s 1932 comedy short Helpmates stars the priceless Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy on top form. It was produced by Hal Roach and released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer on 23 January 1932. Hardy makes the mistake of calling […]
Director John Carl Buechler’s 1990 film Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College stars Kevin McCarthy as Professor Ragnar, a college teacher who calls the nasty little monsters to campus to deal with unruly gangs in […]
‘Question: What is the surest way to keep a husband home? Answer: Break both his legs.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy leave their wives to go golfing, chased off by Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) after […]
Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]
Carol Reed directs a Jessie Matthews musical comedy way back in 1938, and this surprising early experience must have been good training for his directing Oliver! thirty years later. Director Carol Reed’s 1938 movie Climbing […]
Director Cliff Owen’s 1966 South American caper comedy is the third of only three cinema movies from beloved British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Following The Intelligence Men (1965) and That Riviera Touch (1966), […]