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Posts Tagged "star-crossed lovers"

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‘Til We Meet Again ** (1940, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O’Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 11,459

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1940 Warner Bros black and white romance film ‘Til We Meet Again stars Merle Oberon and George Brent as two doomed, star-crossed lovers. The 1932 weepie One Way Passage (with William Powell […]

Aug, 07

Mayerling *** (1968, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Genevieve Page) – Classic Movie Review 8477

Director Terence Young’s 1968 Mayerling is the third movie version (after 1936’s Mayerling and 1940’s Sarajevo) of the story from Claude Anet’s novel about the 19th-century misalliance of the Austrian Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf. Mayerling […]

May, 17

Street Angel **** (1928, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston) – Classic Movie Review 7537

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell make the ideal star couple for director Frank Borzage, here directing them for the third time in this compellingly romantic, if somewhat mawkish 1928 early sound film Street Angel, which […]

Sep, 03

Caesar and Cleopatra *** (1945, Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Cecil Parker, Flora Robson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 7427

George Bernard Shaw’s clever, though minor play Caesar and Cleopatra is perfectly cast for the screen in 1945: Claude Rains as the ageing Roman conqueror Julius Caesar and Vivien Leigh as the young Nile beauty […]

Aug, 11

Wuthering Heights *** (1970, Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5558

American horror company American International Pictures (AIP) gets in on the British heritage cinema cash cow and goes all posh with director Robert Fuest’s ‘modern’ 1971 version of the Emily Brontë classic novel that already […]

Jun, 07

Reckless *** (1935, Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson) – Classic Movie Review 4942

The 1935 MGM musical melodrama film stars Jean Harlow as a theatre star whose career is endangered by the scandal of her husband’s suicide. Uncomfortably, the tale is plucked by producer David O Selznick from […]

Jan, 26

Grease ***** (1978, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar) – Classic Movie Review 1478

Re-released in cinemas for its 20th birthday in 1998 and again for its 40th birthday in 2018, director Randal Kleiser’s breathlessly exuberant, joyous 1978 movie of Grease, Broadway’s second longest running musical after A Chorus […]

Jul, 26

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