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Internes Can’t Take Money *** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges) – Classic Movie Review 11,302

Joel McCrea is the first Dr Kildare, who treats and falls for Barbara Stanwyck… Director Alfred Santell’s 1937 black and white hospital drama Internes Can’t Take Money [You Can’t Take Money] stars Joel McCrea as […]

Jun, 13

Oscar and Lucinda ** (1997, Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,629

Minister’s son Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and heiress Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) fall in love in Victorian England in director Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 movie of Peter Carey’s mid-1800s period novel Oscar and Lucinda. The film is a […]

Dec, 05

Riding High ** (1950, Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 9592

Frank Capra tepidly remakes his 1934 Broadway Bill as a vehicle for Bing Crosby in the 1950 comedy Riding High. Crosby is reasonably animated as the cheerful chappie Dan Brooks who is trying to raise […]

Apr, 03

Seven Keys to Baldpate ** (1929, Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston) – Classic Movie Review 9212

Director Reginald Barker’s 1929 RKO Radio Pictures mystery thriller Seven Keys to Baldpate is the rudimentary, halting fourth (and first sound) version of nine movies of this famous Earl Derr Biggers tale of a writer (played […]

Jan, 01

Rattle of a Simple Man *** (1964, Harry H Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird, Charles Dyer, Michael Medwin, Hugh Futcher) – Classic Movie Review 7305

Director Muriel Box’s 1964 British comedy Rattle of a Simple Man stars Harry H Corbett, who gives an appealing turn as the naive, timid Manchester soccer fan Percy, a 39-year-old virgin who is persuaded by […]

Jul, 18

Dynamite ** (1929, Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye, Joel McCrea) – Classic Movie Review 5544

Perhaps hampered by the primitive dawn-of-sound technology, producer-director Cecil B DeMille 1929 romantic drama movie is unusually uncertain, contrived and unconvincing hokum from this great Hollywood showman. Kay Johnson stars as heiress Cynthia Crothers who […]

Jun, 03

Owd Bob [To the Victor] **** (1937, Will Fyffe, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 2800

Director Robert Stevenson’s sweet, lovingly crafted 1937 film drama stars Will Fyffe as an old Scots farmer called Adam McAdam who has a sheepdog by the name of Black Wull, which is alleged to be […]

Aug, 13

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