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The Yellow Teddy Bears * (1963, Jacqueline Ellis, Iain Gregory, Annette Whiteley, Raymond Huntley, Georgina Patterson, John Bonney) – Classic Movie Review 11,835

The pupils at an English girls’ school deal with pre-marital sex, unwanted teen pregnancy and abortion in director Robert Hartford-Davis’s 1963 British teensploitation drama film shocker The Yellow Teddy Bears (aka Gutter Girls and The […]

Jan, 10

The Love Ban * (1973, Hywel Bennett, Nanette Newman, Milo O’Shea, Angharad Rees, Nicky Henson) – Classic Movie Review 11,100

Director Ralph Thomas’s desperate 1973 British film It’s a 2’6’ above the Ground World [The Love Ban] is a mucky, horribly dated Seventies British comedy, with lots of swearing and back then supposedly ‘daring’ gags, […]

Apr, 15

The Lady in Red *** (1979, Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher) – Classic Movie Review 10,930

‘Her father said she was a tramp. Her customers said she was fantastic.’ Director Lewis Teague’s 1979 film The Lady in Red [Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin] is a good, cultish low-budget ($400,000) action crime […]

Feb, 17

Lolly-Madonna XXX [The Lolly-Madonna War] ** (1973, Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,440

There’s a gory battle for land between fighting families the Feathers and the Gutshalls deep in rural Tennessee, in the 1973 action crime film Lolly-Madonna XXX. Rod Steiger and Robert Ryan come off best as […]

Oct, 20

Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate (1978, Christopher Neil, Arthur Mullard, Anna Quayle, Stephen Lewis, Nina West, William Rushton, Christopher Biggins) – Classic Movie Review 10,411

‘He’s always on call for this sort of job!’ Director Stanley A Long’s 1978 Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate is the third of three turgid Seventies British sex comedies, in the Confessions of… style, with […]

Oct, 14

Violent City [Città violenta] *** (1970, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland, Umberto Orsini, Michel Constantin, Ray Saunders) – Classic Movie Review 9831

Director Sergio Sollima’s 1970 Italian-French urban crime thriller Violent City [Città violenta], stars Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Telly Savalas. It opens with an impressive car chase sequence on the island of St Thomas in […]

May, 27

The Van *** (1996, Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly, Ger Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 9663

Director Stephen Frears follows up The Snapper (1993) with his lesser but still enjoyable 1996 film The Van, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel The Van, the third in his Barrytown Trilogy. The film stars Colm […]

Apr, 22

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