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Expect to see the usual Askey & Murdoch banter so popular in its day, with lots of interesting, quirky co-characters.
Contrary to popular belief, this title , to me at least, is not so very bad.
Ingrid Bergman is a temporarily impoverished Polish countess in 1900s Paris who finds herself pursued by France's most popular general and a glamorous count -- and that's on top of being engaged to a shoe magnate.
I feel privileged to own this original 1932 8mm black and white silent film of Shirley before she became popular or well known.
Although she is little known today, Deanna Durbin was one of the most popular stars of the 1930s, a pretty teenager with a perky personality and a much-admired operatic singing voice.
What starts outlooking like a regular episode of the popular British TV series"Heartbeat" soon turns into a gritty gangster getaway action flick.Nothing truly memorable happens in this simple small film and thus ends-up as fairly decent weekend entertainment.
Watching Gene Saks' 'The Odd Couple (1968),' adapted from a popular Neil Simon play, the realisation suddenly clicked: Matthau is, in his own right, absolutely hilarious!
Italian filmmakers are famous for ripping off popular films, and while it's not completely obvious; it seems to me that this one has taken a fair bit of influence from Hellraiser.
According to the director this movie was popular in Asia.
One of their most popular TV shows is "The Running Man", where convicted felons are hunted down and killed for the entertainment of millions.
The kind of humor present in Basketball was not popular upon the time of it's release and had it come out today it would be a hit.
Jackie wanted simply to make a movie which would include the usual kung fu and also fierce gun play and other "urban" action which would later become very popular and typical among HK directors like John Woo and Ringo Lam.
I'm not saying it's bad, I can't say it's bad, but this whole popular and not popular thingy isn't good.
In the 30's, film-going was hugely popular even at the height of economic gloom.
Who could guess that Vision Quest, Fight Club, and 2001: A Space Oddysey, movies that were panned by critics and audiences alike upon their release, would become immensely popular?
If the robot was not in this film, I don't think it would have been as popular as it was/is.
In Power of Kangwon Province, we are shown two stories of individuals doing just that, trying to find themselves through a trip to the popular Korean parks in the mountains of Kangwon Province.
The foreign movies are sometimes more interesting, yet there is not enough advertisement to make them popular.
Old Jane's mannered tale seems very popular these days.
While it may not have been as popular as his Gandhi, it is every bit as gripping, if not more, and was released when South Africa still had not got rid of the shackles of apartheid.
Starring Matthew Pritchard who does pretty much anything, Lee Dainton also up for just about anything, Dan Joyce (the British one) who hardly does much physical stuff and has a OTT laugh, and Pancho (Mike Locke) who does a lot, but is more popular for being short, fat and lazy.
In an attempt to cash in on the success of Universal's horror films Majestic Pictures hired several popular actors from the current genre and put them in this effort that (realistically speaking) is nowhere near as good.
As a popular sport, surfing was liked by many people.
Mel Torme and Victor Borge, in their younger years, serve to make this film interesting - and especially viewing a young Sinatra, on the sunny side of 30, and definitely conveying that this was his "yes, I'm a popular singer, but hardly an actor yet" stage.
The game was popular among my husband's friends when he was in junior high school in Brooklyn, NY, and he describes it as something like "Spin-the-Bottle," "Lifesaver Relay," and other preteen kissing games.
Or -- since the screenplay was written by the author of the novel on which this was based -- was this a currently popular story with which the audience was already very familiar?
Still, it is representative of the prevailing carnal dream of male American high schoolers of the time, and on that basis alone THE VAN has, almost in spite of itself, become an artifact of the period that must be referenced in any honest retrospective of the period's popular American cinema...
It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account.
This splendidly-directed fantasy is the second in the popular by flawed Tarzan series put out by MGM.
Never the less Ballroom dancing is (on the quite) immensely popular.
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