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Song of Surrender **½ (1949, Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, Macdonald Carey) – Classic Movie Review 12,157

Claude Rains again stars as a tyrant bullying his much younger wife, in the 1949 romantic melodrama Song of Surrender. Director Mitchell Leisen’s slickly played 1949 Paramount Pictures black and white romantic melodrama Song of […]

Jun, 04

Crack in the Mirror *** (1960, Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Juliette Greco) – Classic Movie Review 11,781

Director Richard Fleischer’s 1960 black and white CinemaScope crime drama film Crack in the Mirror is based on Marcel Haedrich’s novel Drama in the Mirror, and stars Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman and Juliette Greco, playing […]

Dec, 10

That Certain Age *** (1938, Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, John Halliday, Nancy Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 8361

Director Edward Ludwig’s 1938 black and white comedy musical That Certain Age stars Deanna Durbin as rich, wholesome young Alice Fullerton, who develops a sudden passion for dashing, sophisticated older reporter Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas) after […]

Apr, 14

Marjorie Morningstar ** (1958, Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Edd Byrnes, George Tobias, Jesse White, Paul Picerni, Ruta Lee, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 6317

Director Irving Rapper’s intriguing and glossy but uncomfortable 1958 romantic drama film adaptation of The Winds of War writer Herman Wouk’s sincere novel – surprisingly at the time the most-read book since Gone with the Wind – […]

Nov, 26

Una ** (2016, Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed) – Movie Review

Director Benedict Andrews’s 2016 Britsh film is a drab and disappointing drama that plays uncinematically and so feels like it is based on a stage play – and it turns out it is, screen-writer David […]

Oct, 08

Walk, Don’t Run *** (1966, Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 3071

Cary Grant bows out from the movies on a sweet but minor note at the age of 62. His final screen role in 1966 is a lightweight but pleasant remake of the 1943 comedy The […]

Nov, 20

Alive and Kicking **** (1996, Jason Flemyng, Antony Sher, Dorothy Tutin, Bill Nighy, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 2125

Director Nancy Meckler’s excellent 1996 British dance drama and gay-themed movie, offers Jason Flemyng the chance to have a field day as a gay, bitchy, promiscuous, essentially lonely HIV-positive dancer who suddenly and quite unexpectedly […]

Jan, 28

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