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The Crowd Roars **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 8895

Director Richard Thorpe’s tough 1938 MGM black and white boxing drama The Crowd Roars stars pretty boy Robert Taylor [real name Spangler Arlington Brugh] as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way through to a manlier […]

Sep, 10

That Sinking Feeling **** (1979, Robert Buchanan, Billy Greenlees, John Gordon Sinclair, John Hughes, Tom Mannion, Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco) – Classic Movie Review 8567

Writer-producer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1979 That Sinking Feeling is a bright, funny, light-hearted comedy in which four unemployed Glaswegian scallywag teens – Ronnie (Robert Buchanan), Wal (Billy Greenlees), Andy (John Gordon Sinclair) and Vic (John Hughes) […]

Jun, 08

Go West *** (1925, Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers) – Classic Movie Review 7575

Buster Keaton’s amiable and deservedly well liked 1925 silent comedy Go West finds the great comic homeless and friendless. So he puts all his possessions on his bed and drags it westwards to California, where he […]

Sep, 14

The Prisoner of Second Avenue **** (1975, Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks) – Classic Movie Review 4655

Director Melvin Frank’s 1975 feature is a delightful, frenzied, often hilarious Neil Simon black comedy, with hints of darkness and bitterness balanced by the charismatic acting from Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft. Lemmon stars as […]

Nov, 14

Model Shop **** (1969, Gary Lockwood, Anouk Aimée, Alexandra Hay) – Classic Movie Review 4,302

French director Jacques Demy’s first film made in America and in English is hypnotically compelling and shamefully underrated. Demy reunites with Anouk Aimée, who also plays a character named Lola in his debut film Lola […]

Sep, 05

The Daughter *** (2015, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Anna Torv, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider, Kate Box, Odessa Young, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

In his directorial debut feature, Simon Stone writes and directs an interesting riff on Henrik Ibsen’s 1884 Norwegian classic play The Wild Duck, moving it to a modern setting and Australia, filming in Sydney. It is all about […]

May, 29

The Shop Around the Corner ***** (1940, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Felix Bressart, William Tracy) – Classic Movie Review 2512

The 1940 Ernst Lubitsch romcom is a Christmas delight, telling the story of two employees (Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart) at a Budapest leathergoods store in the lead-up to Christmas.  Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 sparkling romantic […]

May, 23

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