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The Return of Don Camillo [Il ritorno di Don Camillo] *** (1953, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont, Paolo Stoppa, Arturo Bragaglia) – Classic Movie Review 9356

Director Julien Duvivier’s 1953 French-Italian comedy film The Return of Don Camillo [Il ritorno di Don Camillo] [Le retour de Don Camillo] brings back Fernandel and Gino Cervi happily to the screen. Following the 1952 […]

Feb, 07

Anything Goes *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 9276

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1936 black and white musical Anything Goes [Tops Is the Limit] is a revamped version of the great stage show for the movies, based on the play by Guy Bolton and P […]

Jan, 18

Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] ***** (1937, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault) – Classic Movie Review 8515

Director Marcel Carné’s 1937 French pre-war classic Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] is a marvellously funny and brilliantly inventive black comedy, taken at a breathlessly fast slapstick lick. It is graced with stupendous performances by […]

May, 29

The Bishop’s Wife **** (1947, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 6802

Hitchcock’s favourite actor Cary Grant (Suspicion) makes an awkward fit as an angel in The Bishop’s Wife (1947). The cinema’s best ever light comedian is always at his best in a subtle or ambiguous role and […]

Mar, 14

Ladyhawke **** (1985, Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood) – Classic Movie Review 6800

Co-producer-director Richard Donner delivers the splendid, quite exquisite 1985 medieval sword and sorcery adventure Ladyhawke with the help of the most rousing performances from an ideal, actually perfect cast, headed by Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, […]

Mar, 13

Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] ***** (1982, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Ewa Fröling, Kristina Adolphson, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 3934

Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]

Jun, 28

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