Leo McCarey

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The Awful Truth review by from west sussex

Awfully good 4 January 2005
...Leo McCarey is no longer a famous name but, in his day, he was a well-respected comedy director, who had worked with Laurel and Hardy in their heyday. His biggest hit was ... Read customer review

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen
Director: Leo McCarey
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The last film by Leo McCarey (AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER) picks up on earlier religious themes in the director's work. It follows Father O'Banion (William Holden, THE WILD BUNCH) to a mission in 1949 China, where he is to take over the position of the elderly Father Bovard (Clifton Webb, CHEAPER BY THE ..read more »

13% from 3 members
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Rally 'round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins
Director: Leo McCarey
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Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite who becomes involved in various shenanigans with his wife Grace Oglethorpe, leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.

80% from 1 member
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An Affair To Remember - Blu-ray (1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning
Director: Leo McCarey
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during ..read more »

62% from 4 members
Not available for rental

An Affair To Remember on DVD (1957)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Cary Grant, Richard Denning
Director: Leo McCarey
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An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during ..read more »

72% from 3,958 members

Once upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak
Director: Leo McCarey
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An American correspondent is on the trail of a baron about to marry an American stripper impersonating a society girl.

48% from 15 members
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Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Director: Leo McCarey
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While not a box-office success, this drama, directed by Leo McCarey, developed a potent reputation among film critics and movie buffs for its sensitive and perceptive treatment of the problems of the elderly. When McCarey won the Oscar for Best Director the same year for The Awful Truth, he ..read more »

76% from 73 members
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The Awful Truth on DVD (1937)
Starring: Esther Dale, Mary Forbes, Cary Grant
Director: Leo McCarey
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Leo McCarey directed this classic screwball comedy in which Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play Jerry and Lucy Warriner, a couple whose marriage is starting to fall apart. Jerry informs Lucy that he's taking a vacation alone in Florida; instead, he holes up with his buddies and plays poker for a week (..read more »

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Make Way for Tomorrow - Blu-ray (1937)
Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Director: Leo McCarey
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Of Make Way for Tomorrow, Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich: "Oh my God that's the saddest movie ever made." Long unavailable for home viewing, Leo McCarey's personal favourite among all his films (which included The Awful Truth and An Affair to Remember) is sad, yes, but it also stands as ..read more »

77% from 123 members
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The Milky Way on DVD (1936)
Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Harold Lloyd, Charles Lane
Director: Leo McCarey
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Burleigh Sullivan is a wimpy, harmless milkman whose life is transformed after he accidentally KOs a boxing champ and gets signed by a nefarious fight promoter.

46% from 29 members

Ruggles Of Red Gap (1935)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles
Director: Leo McCarey
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Charles Laughton stars as the eponymous anti-hero, an English valet transferred to the American West in the early years of the 20th century.

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Belle of the Nineties on DVD (1934)
Starring: Mae West, Roger Pryor, Katherine Demille
Director: Leo McCarey
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Ruby Carter (Mae West), the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St.Louis to New Orleans (which kind of belies the Western genre designation), mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Installed as the prize attraction of "The ..read more »

52% from 87 members

Duck Soup (1933)
Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Director: Leo McCarey
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Possibly the most well known of any Marx Brother's films, made during the depression of 1933. Groucho stars as Rufus T Firefly, dictator of mythical Freedonia. Harpo and Chico have been commissioned as spies by Grouchs' rival, Trentino.

69% from 3,912 members
Not currently released

Bing Crosby Collection - Going My Way / ... (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Bing Crosby
Director: Leo McCarey
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Two Musical features. In 'Going My Way', Bing Crosby plays Father O'Malley who is sent to help out a mortgage-ridden parish. Also includes 'The Bells Of St. Mary's'.

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Make Way for Tomorrow - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Make Way For Tomorrow - 4.0 stars
An Affair To Remember - 3.5 stars
Duck Soup - 3.5 stars
The Awful Truth - 3.5 stars

Ruggles Of Red Gap - 3 stars
Satan Never Sleeps - 0.5 stars
Once upon a Honeymoon - 2.5 stars
The Milky Way - 2.5 stars
An Affair To Remember - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Cary Grant - 4 times - show films
Fay Bainter - 2 times - show films
Deborah Kerr - 2 times - show films
Thomas Mitchell - 2 times - show films
Richard Denning - 2 times - show films