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Posts Tagged "Lolita"

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Wicked *** (1998, Julia Stiles, Chelsea Field, Louise Myrback, Michael Parks) – Classic Movie Review 12,653

‘Evil Never Looked So Good.’ Director Michael Steinberg’s gripping 1998 film Wicked stars Julia Stiles as a disturbed, manipulative teenage girl called Ellie Christianson, who is top of the police’s list of suspects when her mother […]

Sep, 25

That Hagen Girl * (1947, Shirley Temple, Ronald Reagan, Rory Calhoun, Lois Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 12,578

Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films) won the first ever Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Actress for her performance in the 1947 Warner Bros black and white drama film […]

Jul, 15

I Walk the Line ** (1970, Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld, Estelle Parsons, Ralph Meeker, Lonny Chapman, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 11,403

Gregory Peck stars in I Walk the Line (1970) as an ageing sheriff who gets a crush on a local Lolita (Tuesday Weld). Director John Frankenheimer’s flatfooted, depressing 1970 Tennessee neo noir drama I Walk […]

Jul, 19

Twinky [Lola] [London Affair] * (1970, Charles Bronson, Susan George, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Jack Hawkins, Lionel Jeffries, Kay Medford, Paul Ford, Orson Bean, Eric Barker) – Classic Movie Review 9868

Director Richard Donner’s 1970 sex comedy drama Twinky [Lola] [London Affair] stars Charles Bronson as dissipated middle-aged porn novel writer Scott Wardman, who has a Swinging Sixties fling with London teenager Twinky (Susan George). She’s […]

Jun, 05

Baby Love ** (1969, Linda Hayden, Ann Lynn, Keith Barron, Derek Lamden, Diana Dors, Sheila Steafel, Patience Collier, Dick Emery) – Classic Movie Review 9787

Director Alastair Reid’s 1969 provocative, racy melodrama Baby Love is an envelope-pushing mix of Lolita and Poison Ivy. It stars Linda Hayden in her film debut as Luci Thompson, a disturbed 15-year-old English schoolgirl sex […]

May, 18

Pretty Baby ** (1978, Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas, Gerrit Graham, Mae Mercer, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 8632

Louis Malle’s highly disturbing and controversial American debut with the 1978 Pretty Baby caused quite a few shock waves with its World War One story set in 1917 about a 12-year-old girl Violet (Brooke Shields), […]

Jun, 23

Laughter in the Dark *** (1969, Nicol Williamson, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Drouot) – Classic Movie Review 8558

Vladimir Nabokov’s novel of suspense and cruelty makes an intriguing entry in the British film noir stakes for director Tony Richardson in his 1969 thriller Laughter in the Dark. Writer Edward Bond turns the original’s […]

Jun, 06

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