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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
Posts Tagged "slapstick comedy"
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That’s My Wife **** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Aubrey) – Classic Movie Review 8572
‘There has been a serious misunderstanding in the Hardy family.’ Stan Laurel masquerades as Mrs Hardy to please Oliver Hardy’s rich uncle (William Courtwright) in director Lloyd French’s very inventive and funny 1929 two reeler […]
The Shaggy Dog *** (1959, Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk) – Classic Movie Review 8471
Director Charles Barton’s 1959 black and white family fantasy The Shaggy Dog is a daft slapstick comedy tale from the far-off days when the Walt Disney studio had previously not yet so far made a slapstick […]
Shout at the Devil *** (1976, Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Barbara Parkins, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 8444
Director Peter R Hunt’s 1976 British war adventure film Shout at the Devil is a robust and welcome if undistinguished old-style action adventure thriller, with Lee Marvin as boozy American entrepreneur Colonel Flynn O’Flynn and […]
Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach * (1988, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, George Gaynes, Matt McCoy) – Classic Movie Review 8339
Director Alan Myerson’s painful 1988 comedy Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach again stars George Gaynes as Commandant Eric Lassard, who goes to Miami to pick up an award (not an Academy Award!) from the […]
The Big Bus **** (1976, Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty, Bob Dishy, José Ferrer, Ruth Gordon, Harold Gould, Larry Hagman) – Classic Movie Review 8172
All aboard the ultimately luxurious coach for director James Frawley’s 1976 The Big Bus, a hilarious parody of Seventies disaster movies in which drivers Dan Torrance and Shoulders (played by Joseph Bologna and John Beck) […]
Tit for Tat **** (1935, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8110
Director Charles Rogers’s hilarious 1935 slapstick comedy short film Tit for Tat is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s only sequel, a continuation of 1934’s popular Them Thar Hills. This time Stan and Ollie open an […]
Gone Fishin’ ** (1997, Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Nick Brimble, Carol Kane, Willie Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 7943
Lethal Weapon 2 co-stars Joe Pesci, Danny Glover give broad but genial performances as buddies Joe and Gus, on an ill-fated fishing trip to the Florida Everglades, a free trip they win a contest. Trouble follows […]