Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Theresa Harris, George Brent Director: Alfred E Green Lily Powers (Stanwyck) decides, after years of being exploited, to take her life into her own hands. Joined by her best friend and sometime maid (Harris), she uses her body and her brains to get to the top. But is there a place in… Continue reading Classic Movie: Baby Face (1933)
Starring: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin Director: Roy William Neill Eight guests are invited to a penthouse apartment for a lavish dinner, but it's all very mysterious. None of them really know each other or who invited them. But someone invited a 9th guest: death! It's all very dramatic in this fun and entertaining lesser known… Continue reading Classic Movie: The 9th Guest (1934)
Ginger Rogers and David Niven star in this hilarious and slightly odd screwball comedy about a woman mistaken to be the mother of an abandoned child and the lengths people go to to help her keep "her" baby. Watch the review below. https://youtu.be/RrduPyhYp6w
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris Director: Vincent Sherman A fun, short and slightly obscure one this week. The Return of Doctor X is a B movie with a dark premise: a reporter and his friend, a doctor, investigate some odd murder cases that have occured. The victims were found… Continue reading Classic Movie: The Return Of Doctor X (1939)
I had a lot of fun doing a little guest appearance on this podcast. It's Howard Casner's Pop Art podcast. It compares one more modern, pop culture movie with a classic or cult film that shares themes or ideas. For this episode, I picked 80s classic The Running Man from 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Howard… Continue reading Podcast: The Running Man vs Most Dangerous Game on Pop Art Podcast with Howard Casner
Starring: Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles Director: Howard Hughes A bit of a commercial failure on release, this madcap screwball comedy starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and a leopard has become an absolute classic. Full of whipsmart and snappy dialogue, crazy situations and excellent and charismatic leads, this is one to treasure. Full review… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Starring: Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine Director: George Stevens Based very loosely on work by Rudyard Kipling, Gunga Din is the story of three soldiers who go on one last adventure before one of them will be leaving the British Army in India to get married. They wind up… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Gunga Din (1939)
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder Director: Alfred Hitchcock https://youtu.be/GNCh_QEHhqQ Perhaps one of Hitchcocks lesser known movies, Sabotage is the story of a woman caught between her kind husband, the ring of spies he's involves with and the handsome detective trying to investigate. It has some great set peices, expecially a tense scene involving… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Sabotage (1936)
Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne Director: Leo McCarey https://youtu.be/h9PEi_V1LgI A classic and much lauded screwball comedy, just in time for Valentine's Day. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne sparkle as a married couple in the process of divorcing when they each separately realise the awful truth: they belong together. Rather than telling each other, they each… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: The Awful Truth (1937)
Starring: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady Director: Henry Hathaway A beautiful Hollywood star (West) is tangled in a romance with a politician that might ruin her career. Her PR man, Morgan (William), decides to strand her in the countryside to stop her from meeting up with her lover, only to find her… Continue reading Classic Movie Of The Week: Go West, Young Man (1936)
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