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Murder By Death (1976) starring Peter Falk, David Niven, Peter Sellers

Murder By Death

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Murder By Death (1976) starring Peter Falk, David Niven, Peter Sellers

Murder By Death is an absolutely hilarious of the murder mystery genre, spoofing virtually every classic detective character with an all-star cast! Hilariously funny and highly recommended!

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Terror in the Wax Museum

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Terror in the Wax Museum (1976) starring Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, John Carradine

Terror in the Wax Museum is an interesting murder mystery. It’s set in Victorian London, 10 years after Jack the Ripper’s murder spree …

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The Razor’s Edge

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The Razor’s Edge (1946), starring Herbert Marshall, Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Clifton Webb, Anne Baxter

Why did survive? That’s the question that World War I veteran Tyrone Powers is trying to answer in The Razor’s Edge – putting all else aside

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The Bishop’s Wife

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The Bishop’s Wife (1947) starring Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young

The Bishop’s Wife is a delightful Christmas movie, about an overworked bishop, who prays to God for help. And he gets an angelic answer. The answer he needs, not what he expected.

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Witness for the Prosecution

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957) starring Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich

In Witness for the Prosecution, a wealthy widow is found murdered. Her married suitor, Leonard Vole, is accused of the crime. Vole’s only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife … But his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own!

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Mystery Street

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Mystery Street (1950) starring Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis of Mystery Street

In Mystery Street, a Harvard professor helps a small town policeman when the skeletal remains of a pregnant prostitute turn up on a Massachusetts beach.

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Come to the Stable

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Come to the Stable (1949), starring Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis of Come to the Stable

In Come to the Stable, a pair of French nuns fulfill their promise to God.  By moving to New England to found a children’s hospital. A pleasingly warm movie based on a story by Clare Boothe Luce.

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Bride of Frankenstein

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Bride of Frankenstein (1935) starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
reviewed by: The masked reviewer

Bride of Frankenstein begins with Mary Shelley informing her friends that she has written a sequel to her masterpiece. She begins this story at the end of Frankenstein with Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) recovering from his injuries, and the mill fire still crackling. A curious villager and his worried wife are watching the fire when a familiar hand strangles the man and throws the wife down to her death.Minnie (Una O’Connor) starts screaming when she spots the monster walking away from the ruins. The monster runs away before the mobs can begin their monster hunt again. Henry refuses to accept the monster as his creation and decides to quiet the evil experiment business to follow in the family business.

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Pajama Party

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Pajama Party (1964) starring Annette Funicello, Don Rickles, Buster Keaton

 In short, Pajama Party  is an Annette Funicello beach party movie.  But in addition to the gyrating young girls in bikinis,Pajama Party adds large amounts of clown-level  zaniness as well. The basic story has 3 intertwining plots – a Martian invasion (led by a clean cut, inept Martian teenager and managed by Don Rickles), a beach party complete with teenage angst, and some inept crooks (including Buster Keaton as an American Indian, still wearing his traditional pork pie hat — with a feather in it). There’s a lot of humor in the movie, with slapstick that borders on the Looney Tunes. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it and hope you do as well.

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David Copperfield

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David Copperfield (1935) starring  Freddie Bartholomew,  Frank Lawton,  W.C. Fields, Basil Rathbone  There’s a lot of good things to be said about  David Copperfield —… Read More »David Copperfield

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