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Oliver & Company ** (1988, voices of Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin) – Classic Movie Review 8185

Director George Scribner’s 1988 animated feature Oliver & Company is colourful children’s entertainment as Oliver Twist is transplanted to America and ‘doggyfied’ in this animated Walt Disney tale of cute canines making mischief in New […]

Mar, 02

Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] **** (1984, Xueqi Wang, Xue Bai, Tan Tuo, Liu Qiang) – Classic Movie Review 7885

Director Chen Kaige’s remarkable and challenging 1984 Chinese film Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] is based on the novel by Lan Ke about a communist soldier, Quing Gu (Xueqi Wang), who comes to a tiny […]

Dec, 05

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

Belle of the Nineties **** (1934, Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan) – Classic Movie Review 7491

Director Leo McCarey’s irresistible 1934 musical comedy drama Belle of the Nineties is a highspot for the 41-year-old Mae West in her fourth film, following She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel, both co-starring Cary […]

Aug, 24

I’ll Take Romance *** (1937, Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 7199

Director Edward H Griffith’s rarely revived 1937 Columbia Pictures black and white musical romance I’ll Take Romance is worth a little look, mainly for its effective and tuneful star turn by Grace Moore. As Elsa Terry, […]

Jun, 20

Lawless Range *** (1935, John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7129

John Wayne returns to playing a singing cowboy again in Lawless Range after his one shot as Singin’ Sandy in Riders of Destiny (1933) and he appears to sing in this one, though in fact of course […]

Jun, 07

Evergreen **** (1934, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Betty Balfour) – Classic Movie Review 7056

Director Victor Saville’s delightul evergreen 1934 British musical – and there are so few to speak well of – is perhaps the vivacious and spirited Jessie Matthews’s finest hour in the movies, playing Harriet Green, […]

May, 15

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