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Overboard **** (1987, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Roddy McDowall, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 4057

At the risk of going overboard, director Garry Marshall’s sparkling 1987 comedy is one of Goldie Hawn’s funniest movies. The star lights up the screen with her comic charisma as an arrogant rich bitch who […]

Jul, 20

David Copperfield ***** (1935, Freddie Bartholomew, W C Fields, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Maureen O’Sullivan, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 3941

Director George Cukor’s ingratiatingly involving, meticulously painstaking, gloriously handsome 1935 MGM production of Charles Dickens’s beloved novel David Copperfield is a marvellous movie entertainment that boasts a wealth of memorable vintage acting turns. They come […]

Jun, 27

Lisbon *** (1956, Ray Milland, Maureen O’Hara, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 3643

Producer-director Ray Milland hires himself in 1956 to star his thriller Lisbon as an ex-US Navy ship’s skipper, now adventurer-smuggler, Captain Robert John Evans. With Lisbon, Milland moves into direction, the first of several offbeat, low-budget films including himself as […]

May, 01

Dead Calm **** (1989, Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Billy Zane) – Classic Movie Review 3335

Director Phillip Noyce’s brilliant 1989 Australian horror thriller Dead Calm stars Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman as a married couple called John and Rae Ingram, who are trying to recover from the tragic death of their son […]

Feb, 07

The Cat’s Meow ***½ (2011, Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 2643

The Cat’s Meow is the semi-true story of a real Hollywood murder that took place on the yacht of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), whose mistress film star Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst) is […]

Jun, 27

Underwater! *** (1955, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 2109

Director John Sturges’s 1955 skin-diving adventure movie for the reclusive billionaire producer and RKO studio boss Howard Hughes, is designed to exhibit Hughes’s busty protégée film star Jane Russell (The Outlaw) paddling around in the […]

Jan, 24

The Lady from Shanghai ***** (1947, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 747

Dusting himself off in 1947 after all his troubles on Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles writes, produces, directs and stars in the teasing, exhilarating 1947 film noir tour de force The Lady […]

Jan, 25

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