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Tag Archives: Clifton Webb
QuickPix (35): “Great COMEDIES For You to Savor, Vol. 5”
> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 to 5 star movie. It don’t get any better than this. … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Shot in the Dark, Alfred Zeisler, art, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Cheaper By the Dozen, cinema, classics, Claudette Colbert, Clifton Webb, comedies, criticism, Don Ameche, Elke Sommer, entertainment, families, films, humor, ideas, John Barrymore, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mary Astor, Midnight, movies, Myrna Loy, opinion, Peter Sellers, QuickPix, reviews, romance, screwball comedies, sequels, The Amazing Adventure, The Pink Panther, wit
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KPK on the CINEMA (141) “The Films of November 2023”
. > There goes November. Here comes the heavy hitters of Oscarbait season. Some good stuff this month- and I suspect, some great stuff next month! Let’s get started: (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be … Continue reading →
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KPK on the CINEMA (62): The Films of APRIL 2017
. April was another busy movie month for me. I saw 23, mostly entertaining/occasionally stunning films made between 1920 and 2016, running the gamut from broad romantic comedy to serious documentary, from silent to musical, from the U.S. and countries … Continue reading →
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