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Fahrenheit 451 **** (1966, Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Bee Duffell, Michael Balfour, Ann Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3012

François Truffaut’s love of books shines through his thoroughly compelling and intriguing adaptation from Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel of his 1984-style sci-fi story about a typically oppressive, dystopian future world where books have been outlawed […]

Oct, 28

Escapade *** (1955, Alastair Sim, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Peter Asher, Andrew Ray, Jeremy Spenser) – Classic Movie Review 2794

Jeremy Spenser, Andrew Ray and Peter Asher play three young school-children pals (the last two of them brothers), who steal a plane for a peace mission to Vienna. This causes a stink between the brothers’ divorcing pacifist […]

Aug, 09

The Prince and the Showgirl *** (1957, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Jeremy Spenser, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 2653

Laurence Olivier directs Marilyn Monroe in England in 1957 in this patchy but pleasant romantic comedy that by and large manages the odd trick of joining together of two very different screen legends and two […]

Jun, 28

King and Country **** (1964, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 2532

Director Joseph Losey’s 1964 film stars Tom Courtenay as Private Hamp, a slightly dim, uncomprehending First World War soldier who walks shell shocked away from the rat-infested Passchendaele trenches and is arrested for desertion. [Spoiler […]

May, 28

Kind Hearts and Coronets ***** (1949, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson) – Classic Movie Review 5

‘I shot an arrow in the air; she fell to earth in Berkeley Square.’ In his first film for Ealing Studios, Alec Guinness gives a brilliant display of his remarkable versatility and exquisite comic touch […]

Jun, 26

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