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Director Jack Lee’s 1949 black and white British film Once a Jolly Swagman [Maniacs on Wheels] stars the young Dirk Bogarde as Bill Fox, a jolly 1930s factory worker who quits his job to become […]
Director Henry Levin’s 1953 Twentieth Century Fox comedy musical romance The Farmer Takes a Wife is a plushly produced but uninvolving musical rehash of the sweet 1935 original The Farmer Takes a Wife. It is […]
Director Victor Fleming’s sweet 1935 1820s-set romance The Farmer Takes a Wife stars Henry Fonda, who impresses in his film début (already 30) as the nice farmer Dan Harrow, who courts bargee’s cute housekeeper Molly […]
Director Jonathan Kaplan’s 1983 Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia, who gets into top gear for this carefully crafted biopic of racing driver Shirley Muldowney, who battled male dominance in the sport and her […]
Director Philip Brandon’s 1943 morale-boosting musical We’ll Meet Again provides a rare film role for British wartime singing sensation Vera Lynn, using the title of her most famous song. It is her film debut in […]
Director David Hemmings’s 1978 musical drama Just a Gigolo [Schöner Gigolo, Armer Gigolo] stars the astonishing cast of David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak, David Hemmings, Maria Schell and Curd Jürgens [Curt Jurgens] – ‘and […]
Goodness, gracious! It’s Dennis Quaid giving an amusing caricature of a performance as legendary Fifties rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, in the 1989 stylised comic-book biopic Great Balls of Fire!, which reunites Dennis Quaid with Jim […]