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The History of Mr Polly **** (1949, John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Betty Ann Davies, Edward Chapman, Diana Churchill, Gladys Henson, Miles Malleson) – Classic Movie Review 8544

H G Wells’s comic novel The History of Mr Polly is effectively and brightly brought to the screen in 1948 with a witty screenplay by writer-director Anthony Pelissier and one of John Mills’s best performances […]

Jun, 03

Time After Time **** (1979, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 7,336

Malcolm McDowell stars as H G Wells, who jumps in his time machine and chases surgeon Dr John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner), aka Jack the Ripper, from Victorian London to 1979 San Francisco. Wells falls […]

Jul, 24

Terror Is a Man ** (1959, Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr) – Classic Movie Review 6542

Greta Thyssen plays the voluptuous wife of the secretive scientist Dr Charles Girard (Francis Lederer) in director Gerardo de Leon’s entertaining Z-movie version of H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau. Richard Derr plays William Fitzgerald, who is shipwrecked on […]

Jan, 10

The Invisible Man’s Revenge *** (1944, Jon Hall, Leon Errol, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Evelyn Ankers, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 5622

‘All NEW! All Thrills!’ Universal’s third Invisible Man movie follows James Whale’s The Invisible Man (1933) with Claude Rains and Joe May’s The Invisible Man Returns (1940) with Vincent Price. There was also The Invisible Woman (1940) […]

Jun, 17

Empire of the Ants * (1977, Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott) – Classic Movie Review 2500

Director Bert I Gordon’s hysterically awful 1977 science fiction horror movie Empire of the Ants is made in the 50s-style, but was actually made in the 70s, about holidaymakers in Florida buying into a phony […]

May, 19

Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] ***½ (1941, Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard) – Classic Movie Review 1836

Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]

Nov, 12

The Island of Dr Moreau (1996, Kilmer, Brando) – Bad Movie 1

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1996 movie is one of his worst films, an appalling, totally inept remake of the classic novel by H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau, filmed in 1933 as The Island […]

Mar, 12

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