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Bagdad Café **** (1987, Marianne Sägebrecht, Jack Palance, C C H Pounder, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, Darron Flagg) – Classic Movie Review 11,536

Director Percy Adlon’s 1987 English-language West German comedy drama Bagdad Café [Out of Rosenheim] stars the unlikely, larger-than-life German sex bomb Marianne Sägebrecht as Jasmin Münchgstettner, a hefty tourist from from Rosenheim, Bavaria, who leaves her […]

Aug, 30

Ooh… You Are Awful [Get Charlie Tully] *** (1972, Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 9763

Dick Emery’s camp, lowbrow television act transfers to the movies amusingly and successfully in Cliff Owen’s 1972 British comedy Ooh… You Are Awful [Get Charlie Tully]. The plot, about a con man Charlie Tully (Emery) […]

May, 13

Club Paradise *** (1986, Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis) – Classic Movie Review 7662

Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy and Adolph Caesar are in the tasty star line-up for director Harold Ramis’s 1986 comedy Club Paradise about a Chicago firefighter called Jack Monike (Williams) who […]

Oct, 11

Innocents in Paris *** (1953, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Jimmy Edwards, Claire Bloom, Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Ronald Shiner, Claude Dauphin, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 6571

A great vintage cast of seven British actors play assorted characters who catch the plane from London and spend a weekend in Paris. There they experience amorous and other adventures and kick up a few mild […]

Jan, 16

Come September *** (1961, Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Water Slezak, Joel Grey) – Classic Movie Review 6,034

Director Robert Mulligan’s fairly daft but amusingly bubbly 1961 escapist American romantic comedy film Come September has as its familiar theme the generation clash on an American vacation at a luxurious Italian villa. Rock Hudson plays […]

Sep, 19

To Rome with Love *** (2012, Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Judy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 5791

Writer-director Woody Allen’s trip to Rome produces a very odd and very silly, though weirdly likeable and sometimes very amusing, multi-stranded romantic comedy. It gives the impression of being dashed off in a hurry to […]

Jul, 19

The Prisoner of Zenda ***½ (1952, Stewart Granger, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Robert Coote, Robert Douglas, Jane Greer, Louis Calhern, Francis Pierlot, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 4652

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1952 version is virtually a shot-by-shot remake of the 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda, with the same shooting script, dialogue and film score. In most cases, settings and camera angles are the same too. […]

Nov, 14

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