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Horse Feathers ***** (1932, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd) – Classic Movie Review 3060

Director Norman Z McLeod’s classic 1932 comedy Horse Feathers is the Marx Brothers’ fourth movie and it is brilliant fast-paced, hilarious vintage fun, with the four siblings wreaking their usual havoc in a college setting. […]

Nov, 14

So Big *** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis, Hardie Albright) – Classic Movie Review 2748

Director William A Wellman’s 1932 movie has the distinction of starring two great movie queens – Barbara Stanwyck, very much the star here, and Bette Davis, who catches the eye though she is cast in a […]

Jul, 29

Moonstruck ***** (1987, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, Feodor Chaliapin Jr, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 2,724

Dean Martin warbles ‘When the moon hits your eye like a great pizza pie, that’s amore,’ over the opening titles and then we are off on producer-director Norman Jewison’s wonderfully warm, deliciously romantic 1987 hit […]

Jul, 20

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells **** (2000, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis) – Classic Movie Review 2689

A marvellous cast is assembled for director Gillies MacKinnon’s treasurable, heart-warming 2000 made-for-TV comedy drama, starring Judi Dench, Cleo Laine, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron. It is […]

Jul, 11

Suddenly, Last Summer **** (1959, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift) -Classic Movie Review 2613

‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]

Jun, 18

The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir] **** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 2,588

François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]

Jun, 12

Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576

Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]

Jun, 09

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