Michael Curtiz’s film (he replaced an ‘ill’ William Keighley) is one of cinema’s enduring classics that set the bench-mark for swashbuckling adventure. Errol Flynn, in only...
Heaven Can Wait is a sharp romantic comedy with the Ernst Lubitsch touch. When a dearly departed former playboy (Don Ameche) goes to Hell, he must...
Baby Face Harrington is a comedic gangster-movie spoof, in which a man who is already having a hard time in his job, his social life, and...
Frank Sinatra makes it to the top of the credits in Step Lively, a musical version of the Broadway chestnut ‘Room Service’ (also the basis of...
New Yorker magazine writer James Thurber’s popular battle-of-the-sexes stage drama The Male Animal (cowritten by director Elliott Nugent) with classic performances from Henry Fonda as a...
Damon Runyon’s Times Square world of con men and hustlers populate the background in tragicomic romance The Big Street, produced by Runyon himself. Unusual roles for...
The Lady Eve is perhaps the perfect movie comedy, with a runaway heiress – or, in this case, heir – double identities, barbed wit, inspired pratfalls,...