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The Sunshine Boys **** (1975, Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 3930

Walter Matthau and George Burns star in director Herbert Ross’s very lively and amusing 1975 film version of Neil Simon’s play about two aged, feuding vaudeville comics, former partners before they fell out. Jack Benny […]

Jun, 28

The Wizard of Oz *** (1925, Dorothy Dwan, Larry Semon, Charles Murray, Oliver Hardy, Spencer Bell, Mary Carr) – Classic Movie Review 3630

Dorothy Dwan is Dorothy in director Larry Semon’s quite sweet 1925 silent movie, the first film version of L Frank Baum’s beloved 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, most famous now of course as […]

Apr, 29

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) *** (1931, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 3538

Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1931 MGM drama is notable for starring the king and queen of Thirties Hollywood in their only screen pairing. Naturally Greta Garbo and Clark Gable make a must-see team in this […]

Apr, 06

Myra Breckinridge *** (1970, Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch) – Classic Movie Review 2867

Michael Sarne’s 1970 film of Gore Vidal’s witty comic novel about Hollywood seems nowhere near as bad as its reputation suggests. Raquel Welch gamely plays the sex-change movie critic heroine Myra Breckinridge, who sets out […]

Aug, 30

Twins of Evil ***½ (1971, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Kathleen Byron, Damien Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2,780

Hammer Films’ 1971 horror movie Twins of Evil is splendid Gothic vampire stuff, done with unusual zest and style. The Collinson twins (and Playboy playmates) Mary and Madeleine star as the title duo of identical […]

Aug, 04

Nicholas Nickleby *** (1947, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles, Aubrey Woods, Sally Ann Howes, Jill Balcon, Alfred Drayton) – Classic Movie Review 2718

Charles Dickens’s tale of the young 19th-century English schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby, who ends up with no source of income after his father dies and leaves his family destitute, is surprisingly flatly retold in director Alberto Cavalcanti’s […]

Jul, 17

Cluny Brown **** (1946, Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 2634

Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed film is the 1946 sophisticated romantic comedy Cluny Brown, set in pre-World War Two England, getting its laughs out of satirising the smugness of British high society. Jennifer Jones stars as […]

Jun, 23

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