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Sleeping Car *** (1933, Madeleine Carroll, Ivor Novello) – Classic Movie Review 12,040

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1933 British black and white romantic comedy film Sleeping Car stars Madeleine Carroll and Ivor Novello. Enjoyable, nicely played hit 1930s British romantic comedy in which Ivor Novello plays Gaston Bray, a […]

Apr, 03

Hatter’s Castle *** (1942, Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Emlyn Williams, Beatrice Varley) – Classic Movie Review 10,199

Director Lance Comfort’s 1941 British noir drama Hatter’s Castle has the tasty prospect of starring Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Emlyn Williams and Beatrice Varley, along with Enid Stamp-Taylor, Henry Oscar, Tony Bateman, June […]

Aug, 19

Mystery Junction *** (1951, Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray, Martin Benson, Patricia Owens, Christine Silver) – Classic Movie Review 10,048

Writer-director Michael McCarthy’s 1951 film Mystery Junction is an above-average British B-movie black and white thriller, inventively written and capably directed, and enthusiastically performed by the stalwart cast of actors, including Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray, […]

Jul, 17

North West Frontier [Flame Over India] **** (1959, Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Ursula Jeans, Wilfrid Hyde White, I S Johar, Eugene Deckers, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7762

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1959 British adventure North West Frontier [Flame Over India] stars Kenneth More as dashing, British army hero Captain William Charles Willoughby Scott, who is asked to take away an Indian Hindu […]

Nov, 08

It Happened to Jane ** (1959, Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs) – Classic Movie Review 7692

Doris Day plays Jane Osgood, the lobster lady from Maine who gets her lawyer George Denham (Jack Lemmon) to fight mean railway boss Harry Malone (Ernie Kovacs), who will not deliver her lobsters to her business […]

Oct, 21

The Stationmaster’s Wife [Bolwieser] *** (1977, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich) – Classic Movie Review 6204

The Stationmaster’s Wife is the 111-minute cinema movie version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 200-minute German TV two-part mini-series Bolwieser, in which the pathetic hero, the boring stationmaster Xaver Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), is dominated by his […]

Nov, 07

Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] **** (1973, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 5943

The splendid 1973 movie Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] is a spectacular, violently tough slap-up Thirties Oregon, Depression-set action thriller from producer-director Robert Aldrich, with a great script by Christopher Knopf, […]

Aug, 20

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