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Mrs Winterbourne *** (1996, Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake, Brendan Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 2259

Director Richard Benjamin’s 1996 comedy is a wayward and unwieldly but nevertheless still appealing fairy tale. It is a much-changed version of a Cornell Woolrich/William Irish novel (‘I Married a Dead Man’) and Barbara Stanwyck’s 1950 […]

Mar, 13

No Man of Her Own **** (1950, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl, Lyle Bettger) – Classic Movie Review 2258

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1950 movie is an engrossing, complex and powerfully acted mix of film noir thriller and romantic melodrama based on a splendidly far-fetched crime novel called I Married a Dead Man by Cornell […]

Mar, 13

Biloxi Blues **** (1988, Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern) – Classic Movie Review 1998

Director Mike Nichols films in 1988 the second part of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play trilogy which were such hits on the Broadway stage. Warm, funny and witty, it’s a splendid wise-cracking character- and situation-driven comedy. As usual, […]

Dec, 24

Twentieth Century ***** (1934, John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns) – Classic Movie Review 1977

Howard Hawks’s 1934 dazzling, classic Thirties screwball comedy Twentieth Century boasts great performances by John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1934 dazzling, classic Thirties screwball comedy Twentieth Century boasts Ben Hecht and Charles […]

Dec, 19

The Out of Towners **** (1970, Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1957

Most Neil Simon movie comedies were written as theatre plays and were then adapted into films, but he wrote this 1970 original The Out of Towners directly for the screen when he realised that it would be […]

Dec, 14

Oh, Mr Porter! ***** (1937, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 1854

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1937 movie gem Oh, Mr Porter! is an uproarious masterpiece of British comedy, the perfect showcase for the comic talents of the great Will Hay, and his two contrasting stooges, Graham Moffatt […]

Nov, 17

Night Train to Munich **** (1940, Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt, Felix Aylmer, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 1832

Carol Reed’s fast-moving, enjoyable 1940 thriller film Night Train to Munich is written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. It brings back Margaret Lockwood as the heroine, and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne as cricket-mad […]

Nov, 11

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