Tag: girls
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The House That Screamed [La Residencia] *** (1969, Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 12,271
Writer-director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s 1969 cult Spanish horror film The House That Screamed [La Residencia] stars Lilli Palmer as Señora Fourneau, the strict disciplinarian headmistress of a 19th-century French girls’ boarding school, where the students begin to go missing. She forbids her teenage son Luis (John Moulder-Brown) from going near the girls. Then 18-year-old Teresa…
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Girls in Prison ** (1956, Richard Denning, Joan Taylor, Adele Jergens) – Classic Movie Review 10,001
‘What happens to girls without men?’ The campy 1956 psychotronic film Girls in Prison stars Richard Denning, Joan Taylor and Adele Jergens. In 1956, even a film called Girls in Prison had a male star. ‘What happens to girls without men?’ Director Edward L Cahn’s campy 1956 psychotronic film Girls in Prison stars Richard Denning,…
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Girls! Girls! Girls! ** (1962, Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin, Jeremy Slate) – Classic Movie Review 6238
Stella Stevens plays selfish singer Robin Gantner, who offers ship’s captain Elvis a new boat, in the 1962 Presley musical star vehicle film Girls! Girls! Girls! Director Norman Taurog’s mediocre 1962 musical star vehicle film Girls! Girls! Girls! stars Elvis Presley, who really swings his hips around as sailor Ross Carpenter, and has so many…
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Lady Godiva Rides Again [Bikini Baby] ** (1951, Pauline Stroud, Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Diana Dors, George Cole, Bernadette O’Farrell, Kay Kendall, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 5744
‘GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!’ Director Frank Launder’s spirited but feeble 1951 British black and white comedy Lady Godiva Rides Again [Bikini Baby] showcases the little-known Pauline Stroud’s finest hour in the movies as pretty young Marjorie Clark, an innocent girl who takes the trophy at an English Midland town’s provincial glamour contest and is…
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Pool of London ***½ (1951, Earl Cameron, Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Moira Lister, Max Adrian, Joan Dowling, James Robertson Justice) – Classic Movie Review 4399
Director Basil Dearden’s vintage 1951 British black and white crime thriller Pool of London stars Earl Cameron as Johnny Lambert, a basically honest Jamaican seaman who gets up to his ears in his thieving American buddy Dan MacDonald (Bonar Colleano)’s diamond smuggling racket and a murder case in London. The Jamaican sailor also romances a…
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Garde à Vue [The Inquisitor] **** (1981, Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 3703
Co-writer/ director Claude Miller’s satisfying 1981 French police thriller is neatly done, atmospheric, gripping and very dark. It won four French César Awards in 1982 – Best Actor (Michel Serrault), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Marchand), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Michel Serrault stars as Emile Martinaud, a rich, vain provincial lawyer who is being questioned by two cops, Inspector Antoine Gallien (Lino…