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Michael L @RT67850023 Dec 17, 2024 Come on!!! It's funny and creative spoof on the old time movie formulas Is it gone with the wind? No... but I would have liked to have seen that... LoL See more steve d @RT35616104 Jul 15, 2020 It doesn't matter how many movies you add it still isn't clever. See more Jun 26, 2020 Hokey but fun.Interesting concept, two back to back films with the same actors, I preferred the 2nd See more Simon T @MovieTart Jul 26, 2016 Gloriously funny and affectionate send up of a typical 1930s double-bill. Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller's screenplay is stuffed with every cliché going, and several new ones: they also shoe-horn a bunch of laugh-out-loud doubles entendres for those viewers who really listen. Stanley Donen elicits marvellous deadpan performances from the whole cast, and clearly has a ball revisiting his MGM years. An overlooked gem. See more May 12, 2014 While not a laugh-a-minute riot, 'Movie Movie's' affectionate charm is hard to resist, and its second, musically oriented half is where the film's stylish trump card lies. See more Apr 24, 2012 Produced and directed by Stanley Donen, (Singin' in the Rain (1952), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Bedazzled (1967)), and written by M*A*S*H creators Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller. This is a double bill throwback to the films of the 1930's, the ones that Donen would have grown up with, it feels authentic as well, with a good cast as well. It begins with black and white boxing film Dynamite Hands, where aspiring lawyer Joey Popchik (Harry Hamlin) has a good talent as a boxer, but when his sister Angie (Kathleen Beller) needs an eye operation in Vienna, he takes on boxing and becomes a champ, but runs afoul of mob boss Vince Marlow (Eli Wallach). Then, in Baxter's Beauties of 1933, veteran theatre producer Spats Baxter (George C. Scott) is dying from a heart condition and is looking to put on one last Broadway show, and he employs Dick Cummings (Barry Bostwick) to do it, and Cummings' girlfriend Kitty (Rebecca York), is cast in the show, even managing to replace spoilt, drunken starlet Isobel Stuart (Trish Van Devere), and the show goes on. It's the Grindhouse of the 1970's, only more light hearted, with it's tongue in it's cheek and with Donen managing to do well with it's look, especially the musical segment, with a good supporting cast including Red Buttons, Art Carney and George Burns. Pity it was all downhill from here for Donen. See more Read all reviews

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