The Lady Takes A Flyer
The flyer in question is a plane, not a hand out being thrust into the fists of drunken revellers in the queue outside a club. And the lady in question is Lana Turner, playing a pilot […]
Romantic Comedy
Hired Wife
It’s a fair bet that if a film stars Rosalind Russell it’s going to be good or at least have something going for it. A pitch perfect performer particularly skilled at comedy she is one […]
Here Come the Waves
A musical comedy that is very clearly a wartime recruitment film for the US Navy, Here Come The Waves stars the perennially popular figures of Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton. The WAVES of the title are […]
We’ll Never Have Paris
Romantic comedies need two things to work, and alas We’ll Never Have Paris is never funny or charming enough to feel completely successful. The USP of the movie is that it is based on the […]
Black Mountain Poets
Can two professional con-artist sisters fool an artistic collective into believing they are an internationally famous pair of sibling poets? That’s the premise behind the fitfully amusing, but ultimately not fully successful Black Mountain Poets from […]