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The Dressmaker **** (1988, Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 12,098

Stand by for acting fireworks! Director Jim O’Brien’s 1988 British drama film The Dressmaker is set in England during the Second World War, and stars Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, and Pete […]

May, 05

These Dangerous Years ** (1957, Frankie Vaughan, George Baker, Carole Lesley) – Classic Movie Review 11,915

George Baker is the lead actor in These Dangerous Years (1957), though it is an attempt to make a film star of singing sensation Frankie Vaughan. Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1957 film These Dangerous Years [Dangerous […]

Feb, 08

Ferry Cross the Mersey *** (1964, Gerry Marsden, Fred Marsden, Les Maguire, Les ‘Chad’ Chadwick, Cilla Black, The Fourmost) – Classic Movie Review 10,748

Gerry Marsden, Fred Marsden, Les Maguire, and Les ‘Chad’ Chadwick, aka Gerry and the Pacemakers, star as thinly fictionalised versions of themselves in director Jeremy Summers’s 1964 black and white musical film Ferry Cross the […]

Jan, 04

Dancin’ Thru the Dark ***½ (1990, Claire Hackett, Ben Murphy, Con O’Neill, Peter Beckett ) – Classic Movie Review 9822

Director Mike Ockrent’s good-natured, warm-hearted 1990 British comedy Dancin’ Thru the Dark stars Claire Hackett as Linda, who is out on a wild hen-night with her hen friends while her fiancé Dave (Conrad Nelson) is […]

May, 26

The Reckoning *** (1970, Nicol Williamson, Rachel Roberts, Ann Bell, Zena Walker, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9587

Director Jack Gold’s 1970 drama The Reckoning stars Nicol Williamson, who powerhouses his way through an unlikeable role as Michael Marler, a working-class Liverpool Irishman who greedily makes his way as a successful businessman in […]

Apr, 02

Penny Paradise *** (1938, Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver, Jimmy O’Dea, Maire O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 9185

Director Carol Reed’s 1938 comedy Penny Paradise stars Edmund Gwenn, who is a charmer as Joe Higgins, the Liverpool tugboat skipper who gambles a weekly sixpence on the football pools. One week he has a […]

Dec, 23

The 51st State [Formula 51] ** (2001, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 8878

Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]

Sep, 03

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