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Some Will, Some Won’t ** (1970, Ronnie Corbett, Thora Hird, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Leslie Phillips, Wilfrid Brambell, Dennis Price, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 11,455

Director Duncan Wood’s 1970 British comedy film Some Will, Some Won’t is an ill-advised remake of the 1951 classic Laughter in Paradise, but stars a lovely ensemble British cast, including Ronnie Corbett, Thora Hird, Michael […]

Aug, 06

A Man to Remember *** (1938, Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 10,478

Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama A Man to Remember stars Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis and Lee Bowman. It is the flashback-told biography of a selfless town doctor, Doctor John […]

Oct, 29

Too Much Sun * (1990, Robert Downey Jr, Ralph Macchio, Eric Idle, Andrea Martin, Leo Rossi, Howard Duff, Allan Arbus) – Classic Movie Review 10,363

Robert Downey Jr, Ralph Macchio and Eric Idle star in the would-be controversial, but actually quite dodgy 1990 comedy Too Much Sun, co-written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. After the death of multi-millionaire Old […]

Sep, 29

A Touch of the Sun ** (1956, Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 9483

Director Gordon Parry’s 1956 British comedy A Touch of the Sun stars Frankie Howerd as William Darling, a put-upon bellhop/ hall porter at a crumbling hotel/ guesthouse, who discovers that he is the beneficiary of […]

Mar, 08

The Fortune ** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 7217

Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty star in Mike Nichols’s 1975 flop farcical comedy The Fortune as bumbling conmen who abduct an heiress. Stockard Channing is charming and amusing as the heiress.  ‘It takes three to […]

Jun, 24

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

The Gay Sisters *** (1942, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Nancy Coleman, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Gig Young, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 5173

Or, actually, The Gaylord Sisters. Barbara Stanwyck, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Nancy Coleman star as three sisters –Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna ‘Susie’ Gaylord  – who are in a fight to save their New York City Fifth […]

Mar, 18

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