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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
The Comic starring Dick Van Dyke, Michelle Lee, Mickey Rooney, Carl Reiner movie review of ‘The Comic‘, a little-known film by Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner. It’s about the life of an early silent film clown, the fictional Billy Bright, and his self-destructive behavior that destroyed his...
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January 6, 2011 admin
Comedy
The very first season the the classic variety show, The Muppet Show – watch as Fozzie, Ms. Piggy, Gonzo and the others find out ‘who they are’, and how they change, week by week, into the characters that we now know and love.
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June 7, 2009 admin
Comedy
Movie review of The Princess and the Pirate, one of Bob Hope’s funniest and most popular movies, where the cowardly and inept Sylvester the Great (Bob Hope) who gets embroiled in rescuing the beautiful Princess in disguise (Virginia Mayo) – hilariously funny!
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April 13, 2008 admin
Comedy
Movie review of — The Seven Little Foys’, starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy, the star of vaudeville who has been absent from his children’s lives … until his wife dies, and he’s now forced to be a real — father’ in every sense of that word …...
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April 13, 2008 admin
Comedy
Editorial review of The Lemon Drop Kid | Bob Hope, courtesy of Amazon.com Bob Hope plays a small-time con artist with a fondness for lemon candy in this film based on a Damon Runyon story. When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark) out...
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April 12, 2008 admin
Comedy
