Starring: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger Director: Busby Berkeley A troupe of performers are struggling to make ends meet with the advent of sound in films. They decide to take their show in the road, but upset at being left behind, their children all get together and come up with a show of their… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Babes In Arms (1939)
Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Preston Foster, Helen Vinson Director: Mervyn LeRoy Adapted from the autobiography of Robert E Burns, this film is the story of James Allen (Muni), a man wrongly convicted of a crime, who is sent to work in the chain gangs in the American South. The conditions and the cruel prison… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932)
Starring: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Andrew McCarthy, Andie MacDowell Director: Joel Schumacher Just out of college, a group of close friends struggle to deal with adult life, from relationships and love, to career and money, as well as staying together. The Brat Pack were huge in the… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: St Elmo’s Fire (1985)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier Director: Billy Wilder Set in Paris, a private detective (Chevalier) is tasked with catching a middle aged playboy Frank (Cooper) with client's wife. When his daughter Ariane (Hepburn) overhears that the client plans on killing Frank, she heads to his hotel to rescue him, and ends up pretending… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Love In The Afternoon (1957)
Starring: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore Director: Jack Conway Duke Bradley (Gable) is a bookie who is given a stud farm by a man who owes him a large gambling debt. But when he goes to Saratoga to claim it, the gambler has died and he comes face to face with the man's beautiful… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Saratoga (1937)
Starring: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler Director: Lloyd Bacon Sometimes called the grandmother of all musicals, this film was a huge success, not just due to the fabulous cast and toe tapping songs, but also as the vehicle that launched Busby Berkeley. He became famous for his wonderful set pieces of women… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: 42nd Street (1933)
Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Director: Leo McCarey Nickie (Grant) is a well known man about town, notorious for his love affairs, and he is all set to marry a fabulously wealthy heiress. Terry (Kerr) is a singer with a steady boyfriend. When they meet on an ocean liner, they are complete opposites who disapprove… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: An Affair To Remember (1957)
Starring: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson Director: Sam Peckinpah Set in the final days of the Wild West, a group of aging outlaws try one last job to seal their fortunes, but their plan may just seal their fates. Finding themselves in a Mexican town run… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Wild Bunch (1969)
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine Director: George Cukor An unusual film, The Women was adapted for the screen from the Clare Luce Boothe play, and has 130 speaking roles, all of whom are women. In fact, almost all of the portraits on the sets show women and… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Women (1939)
Starring: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin Director: Bob Clark Ralphie (Billingsley) is a cute blonde haired, blue eyed kid whose major goal in life is to have a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas that he's heard all about on his favourite radio show. But since his parents don't want to give him one,… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: A Christmas Story (1983)
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