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Three Smart Girls *** (1936, Deanna Durbin, Barbara Read, Nan Grey, Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 10,702
Three sisters try to reunite their estranged parents (Charles Winninger and Nella Walker) when their father wants to wed a trampy money-grabber in Universal’s thin but popular 1936 black and white drama Three Smart Girls, […]
Mad About Music *** (1938, Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 9365
Director Norman Taurog’s 1938 Mad about Music stars Deanna Durbin as Gloria Harkinson, the sweet young girl who enlists a visiting nice chap English composer Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall) to play her pop when she is left […]
Climbing High *** (1938, Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim, Margaret Vyner) – Classic Movie Review 8102
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 […]
Hannibal Brooks *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard, John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Karin Baal, Helmuth Lohner) -Classic Movie Review 7770
Producer-director Michael Winner’s fondly remembered 1968 British World War Two caper film Hannibal Brooks is a wartime adventure yarn about an elephant crossing the Alps, starring Oliver Reed in one of his more memorable turns […]
Checkpoint ** (1956, Anthony Steel, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice, Odile Versois, Maurice Denham, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 7319
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1956 British crime thriller Checkpoint is a middling, but quick-moving and feisty motor racing adventure, with lovely Italian backgrounds. Stanley Baker provides a strong, genial presence as O’Donovan, an industrial spy sent […]
The Passionate Friends **** (1949, Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Betty Ann Davies, Isabel Dean) – Classic Movie Review 7087
David Lean’s 1949 film The Passionate Friends is an underrated Brief Encounter-style romantic drama about a woman (Ann Todd) caught between two men – her husband (Claude Rains) and her first love (Trevor Howard). Director […]
Swiss Miss ***½ (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Charles Judels, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 6931
Director John G Blystone’s 1938 comedy stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as cheesy mousetrap sellers in the Swiss Alps, who get swindled out of their money by a cheesemaker and become waiters at a […]