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Kidnapped **** (1938, Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, John Carradine, C Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 10,698

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1938 20th Century Fox adventure Kidnapped is the classic vintage version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale about a boy, David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew), who is kidnapped and sold as a slave […]

Dec, 23

If I Had My Way ** (1940, Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 7394

Director/ story writer David Butler’s tuneful 1940 musical If I Had My Way tells a weary, laborious yarn, with handling to match, although all the stars Bing Crosby, Charles Winninger, Gloria Jean and El Brendel […]

Aug, 03

Summer Interlude [Sommarlek] [Illicit Interlude] **** (1951, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin) – Classic Movie Review 7354

Co-writer/ director Ingmar Bergman’s early lyrical, delicate and sensuous 1951 black and white film Summer Interlude (Sommarlek) hauntingly recalls the bitter-sweet memories of a prima ballerina’s tender first love affair at the age of 15. Bergman […]

Jul, 27

Left Right and Centre *** (1959, Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Gordon Harker, George Benson, Jack Hedley) – Classic Movie Review 7,298

‘You’ll Howl When SEX and POLITICS Collide Head On!’ Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1959 British black and white satirical comedy Left Right and Centre tells a tale we all know quite well – about an English television celebrity […]

Jul, 16

Theodora Goes Wild *** (1936, Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 7193

Director Richard Boleslawski’s amusing 1936 vintage comedy Theodora Goes Wild stars the Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne, who gets her laughs as Theodora Lynn, a small-town librarian who writes a titillating bestseller under the pseudonym Caroline Adams […]

Jun, 19

Kentucky *** (1938, Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 7158

Director David Butler’s 1938 Kentucky is simple, clean-cut romantic and sporting drama, but it is still quite good vintage entertainment. There is rivalry at the Kentucky horse-racing farms in this soapy but amusing story of […]

Jun, 12

Live, Love and Learn *** (1937, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley) – Classic Movie Review 6975

Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1937 movie Live, Love and Learn stars Rosalind Russell as a wealthy sophisticate who weds a poor artist (Montgomery). MGM’s vehicle for its two stars is a routine but still often amusing […]

Apr, 28

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