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Make Mine Mink(1960) starring Terry Thomas Make Mine Mink — a farce about some middle-aged people who decide to break up their boring lives by … Stealing minks, and donating the proceeds to charity. Starring Terry Thomas
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May 25, 2015 admin
Comedy
No Time for Sergeants (1958) starring Andy Griffith Technically, No Time for Sergeants is Don Knotts first movie. However, his time on-screen is very brief, playing a neurotic Army officer who gives Andy Griffith’s character, Will Stockdale, one of his tests. As a consolation, however, No...
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April 15, 2015 admin
Comedy
The Iron Petticoat (1956) starring Bob Hope, Katherine Hepburn — a Cold War comedy that’s short on the comedy
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April 12, 2015 admin
Comedy
The Story of Mankind (1957) starring Vincent Price, Ronald Colman, Cedric Hardwicke, the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo), and many more In a nutshell, The Story of Mankind has humanity on trial for its’ very existence. The Devil himself (played delightfully by Vincent Price) is the prosecutor....
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April 7, 2015 admin
Comedy, Drama
The Three Musketeers (1939), starring Don Ameche and the Ritz Brothers I’ve known of the Ritz Brothers for some time, although I’ve not seen many of their movies. Previously, the only one of their movies that I saw was The Gorilla (with Bela Lugosi). And I wasn’t...
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January 24, 2015 admin
Comedy
Review of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a manic, hilarious, slapstick movie that starred some of the greatest movie clowns of...
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January 15, 2014 admin
Comedy
Movie review of — Son of Paleface‘ – Bob Hope‘s sequel to — Paleface’, again co-starring Jane Russell – as the son of the original Paleface, doing a screwball comedy set in the old American West – vintage Bob Hope, and that’s saying quite a bit. A...
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July 25, 2012 admin
Comedy
My Man Godfrey, (1936) starring William Powell and Carole Lombard movie review of “My Man Godfrey” – one of the great screwball comedies of the 20th century, starring Carole Lombard as the spoiled rich girl and William Powell as Godfrey, the — forgotten man — with a...
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December 3, 2011 admin
Comedy
An American Carol (2008) starring Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer — WARNING! This movie may be offensive to children, young people, old people, in-the-middle people, some people on the right, all people on the left, terrorists, pacifists, war-mongers, fish mongers, Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics (though you’d have to...
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October 26, 2011 admin
Comedy
Editorial review of Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, courtesy of Amazon.com An air race from London to Paris provides the premise for this marvelous comedy, which features thrilling aerial photography and some stupefying stunt flying. It’s set in 1910, when the (lovingly re-created) airplanes of the...
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September 10, 2011 admin
Comedy
