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Getting Away with Murder (1996, Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd)

For mild-mannered ethics professor Jack Lambert (Dan Aykroyd), moral decisions are strictly theoretical until he discovers that his next-door neighbour is the notorious war criminal Karl...

Movies4 years ago

My Sister Eileen (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon)

Sisters JANET LEIGH and BETTY GARRETT arrive in New York from Columbus, Ohio to seek their fortunes as actress and writer respectively and have trouble finding...

Movies4 years ago

Days of Wine and Roses (Warner 1962, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick)

Biting drama about a young couple’s struggle with alcoholism. Edwards gives Lemmon plenty of room–the production is more naturalistic than the original teleplay–and he makes the...

Movies4 years ago

Great Race, The (1965, Tony Curtia, Jack Lemmon)

A Blake Edwards period comedy about a transcontinental auto race with a raft of memorable characters. Along their way, they encounter a polar bear, get into...

Movies4 years ago

Fortune Cookie, The (UA 1966, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau)

In comedy The Fortune Cookie, a TV cameraman (Lemmon) hatches an insurance-fraud scheme with his brother-in-law (Matthau), a larcenous lawyer, when he’s injured while working a...

Movies4 years ago

Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough)

Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh), son of the King of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother Gertrude’s (Julie Christie) wedding to his hated...

Movies4 years ago

Bell, Book And Candle (1958, James Stewart, Kim Novak)

Daniel Taradash steers clear of any attempt to explain the supernatural goings-on at the centre of this tale of modern-day magic. The fact that witches and...

Movies4 years ago

JFK (1991, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones)

Director Oliver Stone has never shied away from exploring the emotional carnage of people’s lives, particularly in the context of bigger events that are meaningful to...

Movies4 years ago

Wackiest Ship in the Army, The (Columbia 1960, Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson)

Jack Lemmon commands a broken-down WWII navy vessel with an inexperienced crew through waters patrolled by the Japanese. Ricky Nelson costars as a particularly green recruit...

Movies4 years ago

It Should Happen to You (Columbia 1954, Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon)

One of the best of the tragically few Judy Holliday comedies, and one of her best performances. As aspiring actress Gladys Glover, Holliday puts her own...

Movies4 years ago

China Syndrome, The (1979, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda)

James Bridges’ Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning thriller The China Syndrome is a prescient warning of the potential dangers of such an unstable fuel source as nuclear power....

Movies4 years ago

Mister Roberts (Warner 1955, James Cagney, Henry Fonda)

Mister Roberts is one of the great WWII comedies, this tale of day-to-day life on the cargo ship ‘Reluctant’ satirizes the boredom, pettiness, cruelty and illogic...

Movies4 years ago

Irma La Douce (United Artists 1963, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine)

Based on the stage musical of the same name, director and co-writer Billy Wilder’s screen adaptation of Irma La Douce scuttles the music in favor of...

Features6 years ago

Should Have Won an Oscar: Some Like It Hot (1959)

At times, good taste and restraint have come close to ruining the movies. Director Fred Zinnemann’s Oscar-nominated The Nun’s Story is a fine example of both,...

Features6 years ago

Five Of The Best James Cagney Movies

James Cagney made his name at the start of the sound era playing gangsters under contract to Warner Bros making classics such as Public Enemy and...

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Jack Lemmon

Getting Away with Murder (1996, Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd)

My Sister Eileen (1955, Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon)

Days of Wine and Roses (Warner 1962, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick)

Great Race, The (1965, Tony Curtia, Jack Lemmon)

Fortune Cookie, The (UA 1966, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau)

Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh, Richard Attenborough)

Bell, Book And Candle (1958, James Stewart, Kim Novak)

JFK (1991, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones)

Wackiest Ship in the Army, The (Columbia 1960, Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson)

It Should Happen to You (Columbia 1954, Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon)

China Syndrome, The (1979, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda)

Mister Roberts (Warner 1955, James Cagney, Henry Fonda)

Irma La Douce (United Artists 1963, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine)

Should Have Won an Oscar: Some Like It Hot (1959)

Five Of The Best James Cagney Movies

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