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And Then There Were None ***** (1945, Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, Richard Haydn, Judith Anderson, June Duprez, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 3,264

French film director René Clair turns Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel and play into the richly stylish 1945 American black comedy mystery thriller film And Then There Were None. It is a great piece of […]

Jan, 13

The Saint Strikes Back *** (1939, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Neil Hamilton, Jerome Cowan, Edward Gargan, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 3218

For this 1939 second crime thriller in RKO Radio Pictures’s eight film series about The Saint, The Saint Strikes Back, debonair George Sanders takes over as Simon Templar from Louis Hayward, who played him in […]

Jan, 03

Going My Way **** (1944, Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, Risë Stevens, Gene Lockhart, Jean Heather, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 3129

‘Sing, Bing . . . . You’re A Grand, Gay Guy In Your Greatest Picture !’ Producer-director Leo McCarey also provided the original story for this warm and appealing 1944 multi-Oscar-winner. Voters seemed to agree that […]

Dec, 05

None But the Lonely Heart *** (1944, Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2340

Screen-writer/director Clifford Odets’s earnest and moody 1944 melodrama None But the Lonely Heart provides Cary Grant with one of his only two Best Actor Oscar nominations in his long and illustrious career. In this amusing curiosity based […]

Mar, 31

The Naked City ***** (1948, Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 1581

Director Jules Dassin’s influential, double-Oscar-winning 1948 documentary-style thriller is still sizzlingly exciting and atmospheric. It succeeds triumphantly in being designed to give a feel of vibrant ‘you are there’ reality by being based on a true case […]

Aug, 23

The Quiet Man ***** (1952, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara) – Classic Movie Review 62

Winning his all-time-record fourth (and last) Best Director Oscar, director John Ford is totally in his element in this delightful, boisterous, good-natured 1952 movie. A double Academy Award winner, it is sparkily written Frank S […]

Jul, 18

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