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Classic Film Review: Cary Grant Saunters into the Sunset, in his boxers — “Walk Don’t Run” (1966)

Posted on December 18, 2024 by Roger Moore

There’s an inspired silliness to the Technicolor bon bon “Walk Don’t Run,” the final film in Cary Grant’s legendary Hollywood career. Surely a mere screenwriter — TV veteran (“Bewitched”) Sol Saks in this case — can’t have been the one … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock Close-ups and Cuts at their Most “Notorious”

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Roger Moore

A purloined key, handed-off and hidden, then “returned” with dire consequences, bottles of wine whose “vintage” sticker earns a lot of attention, a party’s champagne bucket, emptying steadily and suspensefully and the look of doom in a great actress’s ready-for-my-closeup … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: A Little Romance, a Touch of Class, and Class Warfare — “The Philadelphia Story” (1940)

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Roger Moore

It begins with a screwball tease — a couple, wordlessly breaking up, climaxing with the husband maniacally grabbing the wife by the forehead and shoving her back through the door and onto the floor. But even though the wife is … Continue reading →

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