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South Riding **** (1938, Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd, Glynis Johns, John Clements, Marie Lohr) – Classic Movie Review 8636

Fine acting and good screen-writing are showcased in the highly competent, convincing and appealing 1937 black and white drama film South Riding from producer Alexander Korda and director Victor Saville, who takes it very briskly […]

Jun, 24

Slaughterhouse Rulez * (2018, Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Tom Rhys Harries, Michael Sheen, Simon Pegg, Margot Robbie) – Movie Review

Writer-director Crispian Mills’s misfiring British comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) starts out as a public school spoof and turns into a monster movie spoof half way as a sinkhole appears at a fracking site near the boarding school, unleashing scary […]

Nov, 11

The Guinea Pig [The Outsider] *** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 7285

Director Roy Boulting’s entertaining 1948 class drama The Guinea Pig (re-titled The Outsider in America) stars Richard Attenborough as 14-year-old Jack Read, the working-class son of London tobacconists Bernard Miles and Joan Hickson, who gets a […]

Jul, 12

Tom Brown’s Schooldays **** (1951, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, John Charlesworth, James Hayter, John Forrest, Diana Wynyard, Kathleen Byron, Hermione Baddeley, Glyn Dearman, Francis de Wolff, Max Bygraves) – Classic Movie Review 3526

Robert Newton stars in a brilliantly sturdy and showy performance from as the strict and stern English public school reforming headmaster Dr Arnold, in the 1951 British film remake of the 1940 Hollywood movie Tom […]

Apr, 04

Another Country **** (1984, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Anna Massey, Rupert Wainwright, Betsy Brantley, Cary Elwes) – Classic Movie Review 2148

Playwright/screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning London West End theatre hit gay stage play happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. They play a couple of misfit […]

Feb, 02

If . . . ***** (1968, Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Robert Swann) – Classic Movie Review 91

Come the revolution, ‘which side would you be on’? Director Lindsay Anderson’s sabre-rattling story of the repressive life at an English public school in the late Sixties is satisfyingly potent and incisive. Although set in a […]

Jul, 26

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