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The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640

Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]

Jun, 25

The Champ ** (1979, Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder) – Classic Movie Review 8639

Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1979 love-triangle boxing movie tearjerker The Champ is a soggy remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper weepie The Champ, hopelessly out of its time five decades later, with Jon Voight out […]

Jun, 25

Untamed Heart *** (1993, Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Kyle Secor, Willie Garson) – Classic Movie Review 4866

Co-producer/ director Tony Bill’s 1993 romantic tearjerker is an agreeably warm-hearted if vacuously entertaining love story for the Nineties. Marisa Tomei plays – delightfully – the clichéd role of a spunky but spurned waitress from Minneapolis. […]

Jan, 08

An Early Frost **** (1985, Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, D W Moffett, John Glover, Sydney Walsh, Bill Paxton, Terry O’Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 4263

Director John Erman’s beautifully acted, extremely moving 1985 pioneering AIDS drama starts when successful young attorney Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) tells his family both that he is gay and that he is ill. Quinn gives […]

Aug, 28

Torch Song Trilogy **** (1988, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3377

‘It takes a lot of guts and a helluva sense of humour to live life in Arnold’s shoes.’ Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein adapts his own smash hit Broadway and London West End […]

Feb, 18

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