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My Forbidden Past *** (1951, Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 11,256

The 1951 black and white romantic crime drama My Forbidden Past stars Ava Gardner as lady with a secret Barbara Beaurevelle, who plots heartless revenge on Dr Mark Lucas (Robert Mitchum). Director Robert Stevenson’s 1951 […]

May, 31

The Lady Is Willing *** (1942, Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon, Stanley Ridges, Arline Judge) – Classic Movie Review 9619

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1942 The Lady Is Willing is a frothy, mostly appealing, Forties-period romantic comedy in which an eccentric Broadway showgirl, Elizabeth Madden (the incomparable Marlene Dietrich effectively cast against type), is so desperate […]

Apr, 08

Day of the Dead *** (1985, Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Jarlath Conroy, Joseph Pilato) – Classic Movie Review 5779

Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Jarlath Conroy and Joseph Pilato star in this breathtakingly gory 1985 climax to writer-director George A Romero’s first three zombie films, which is too chatty for its own good, preferring to […]

Jul, 17

Sinister *** (2012, Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Ransone) – Classic Movie Review 4814

Co-writer/ director Scott Derrickson’s implausible but satisfyingly twisty and scary 2012 British-Canadian-American supernatural horror film Sinister (written with C Robert Cargill) finds a good star role for Ethan Hawke as fictional washed-up true-crime writer Ellison […]

Dec, 29

Desk Set *** (1957, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 3855

Director Walter Lang’s 1957 movie of a worked-over Broadway hit play is very enjoyable even if it seems a slight disappointment from the great star team of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Tracy stars in Desk […]

Jun, 13

Ball of Fire ***** (1941, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 3173

‘I LOVE HIM because he doesn’t know how to kiss — THE JERK!’ Howard Hawks directs this hilarious 1941 comedy, a highspot for this kind of ‘screwball’ romantic comedy movie, working from a marvellous screenplay […]

Dec, 20

Kinsey **** (2004, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt) – Classic Movie Review 1,999

Writer-director Bill Condon’s 2004 American biographical drama film Kinsey stars Liam Neeson, who gives a sterling performance as US academic and sex scientist Dr Alfred Kinsey, who became America’s most notorious man through his pioneering studies […]

Dec, 24

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