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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]