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Broadway Melody of 1938 **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3626

Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]

Apr, 27

Life Begins for Andy Hardy *** (1941, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 3617

Or rather, Working Life Begins for Andy Hardy. Mickey Rooney stars again in Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941) as Andy Hardy, who this time heads off to New York City to find work. Too […]

Apr, 25

The Harvey Girls **** (1946, Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Virginia O’Brien, Angela Lansbury, Marjorie Main, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 3606

Director George Sidney’s delightful 1946 MGM period Western musical sees Judy Garland on her best form (as Susan Bradley) performing great numbers, including the brilliant Oscar-winning Best Original Song ‘On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa […]

Apr, 23

The Defiant Ones ****½ (1958, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3424

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s classic liberal 1958 film is a simple, moral tale that works well thanks to the strong writing, the classy photography, the all-round excellent performances, the exciting chase sequences, the crafted production and […]

Feb, 28

Last Train from Gun Hill **** (1959, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman, Brian G Hutton, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 3,409

The brilliant 1959 Western film Last Train from Gun Hill comes from the star, director and producer of Gunfight at the OK Corral. Kirk Douglas stars as Marshal Matt Morgan, determined to bring his wife’s […]

Feb, 25

Far and Away *** (1992, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 3333

Director Ron Howard’s stirring 1992 epic period adventure Far and Away is remembered for pairing the then real-life husband and wife Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a poor Irish farm labourer called Joseph Donnelly […]

Feb, 06

Crack-Up *** (1946, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 3,318

RKO’s entertaining 1946 Hitchcock-style American film noir espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Pat O’Brien in rather unlikely casting as George Steele, a small museum art expert and curator probing what turns out to be a […]

Feb, 03

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