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Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1935 comedy drama The Irish in Us is based on a story by Frank Orsatti about an Irish family, and stars James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Mary Gordon, Frank McHugh […]
Director W S Van Dyke’s 1933 romantic comedy crime drama The Prizefighter and the Lady stars real-life prizefighter Max Baer as the ex-sailor turned boxer hero Steve Morgan, while top-billed Myrna Loy plays bar star […]
‘MAVERICK himself – in his first starring big-screen role!’ The young James Garner plays Major (later Colonel) William Darby and Jack Warden co-stars as Master Sergeant Saul Rosen, and they are among the members of […]
Director David Butler’s 1956 The Girl He Left Behind is an over-familiar but pleasant and mildly amusing Fifties services comedy drama, with Tab Hunter as college student Andy Shaeffer, a military draftee knocked into shape […]
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Burgess Meredith team up with original 1976 Rocky director John G Avildsen for the 1990 boxing movie sequel Rocky V, the final episode of the original run of […]
I never thought I’d say this about a boxing movie – it is sweet! But the this isn’t your usual boxing movie. It’s really a romance, and certainly a fine romance. Jarkko Lahti stars as […]
Director Victor Fleming’s 1944 MGM sentimental wartime fantasy is much beloved of Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss, who remade it in 1989 as Always. Spencer Tracy stars as Major Pete Sandidge, a fighter pilot who […]