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Bitter Sweet **** (1933, Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Miles Mander, Ivy St Helier) – Classic Movie Review 11,323

Herbert Wilcox: ‘Surely a better musical play has never been written’. Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1933 musical film Bitter Sweet stars Anna Neagle as a dancer called Sarah Linden, now a gray-haired old woman, who tells […]

Jun, 19

Caught on a Train **** (1980, Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Kitchen, Wendy Raebeck) – Classic Movie Review 9679

Director Peter Duffell’s riveting 1980 Caught on a Train stars Peggy Ashcroft as Frau Messner, an imperious Austrian lady who terrifies young Briton Peter (Michael Kitchen) on an overnight train passing through Germany, in writer […]

Apr, 26

Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] *** (1978, Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi) – Classic Movie Review 7376

Federico Fellini’s intriguing, teasing and provocative 1978 Italian satirical film Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] follows the story of an Italian orchestra as the members assemble for a rehearsal in a run-down auditorium converted from an ancient chapel now […]

Jul, 30

Interlude *** (1968, Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland, Nora Swinburne, Alan Webb, Bernard Kay) – Classic Movie Review 6672

In the original 1939 screenplay for When Tomorrow Comes, Irene Dunne fell for married Charles Boyer, and in its remake, the 1957 film of Interlude, June Allyson fell for continental charmer Rossano Brazzi. And now in […]

Feb, 10

Unfaithfully Yours **** (1948, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence, Rudy Vallee, Kurt Kreuger, Lionel Stander, Edgar Kennedy, Alan Bridge) – Classic Movie Review 4966

Writer-director Preston Sturges’s 1948 screwball marital black comedy is the witty, and often hilarious story of hot-headed British symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter (Rex Harrison), who imagines three ways to deal with his supposedly unfaithful […]

Jan, 30

La Vérité [The Truth] **** (1960, Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey) – Classic Movie Review 2,358

Released in 1960, La Vérité [The Truth] was a runaway hit in France with an incredible 5,700,000 spectators and was Brigitte Bardot’s highest grossing film. She described it as her favourite of all her films. […]

Apr, 05

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