Designing Woman (1957)

A journalist and a fashion designer self-importantly narrate the first turbulent days of their impulsive marriage in this romantic comedy that benefits from the attractive pairing of Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall, but it is hard to care much about the lovebirds' first-world-problems which amount to them having too many friends for the social gatherings they host in their apartment, careers that are somehow incompatible (or is it just the people they are in contact with through their careers that are incompatible?), and some understandable misgivings they both have about the other's ex-partner.

★★★☆☆

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The Omen (1976)

Seventies hairstyles, dischordant organ music and skivvies under plaid leisure suits with flared pant legs are enough to scare the gee willikers out of anyone but add respected actors and some gruesome deaths (a glass pane beheading is the worst) and you have the effectively creepy horror, the original The Omen about a baby switch Gregory Peck and viewers of umpteen lesser sequels wish he'd never made.

★★★★☆

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The Million Pound Note (US: Man With A Million) (1954)

Two mischevious British toffs make a penniless American in London, Henry Adams (played by a rather dreamy Gregory Peck), the subject of a bet, handing him a million pound note and watching as high society reacts around him, in this enjoyable comedy, a little bit "Brewster's Millions", a little bit Trading Places, based on a Mark Twain short story.

★★★★☆

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