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The Glass Menagerie *** (1987, Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton) – Classic Movie Review 7565

Paul Newman expertly and sensitively directs the Tennessee Williams hothouse drama The Glass Menagerie for the big screen, showing his special affinity with the material. Newman’s wife Joanne Woodward is extremely impressive as the nagging, […]

Sep, 12

The Glass Menagerie *** (1973, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Moriarty, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles) – Classic Movie Review 7564

Four first-class performances light up the excellent new script for television of Tennessee Williams’s play in director Anthony Harvey’s 1973 TV movie The Glass Menagerie. It won four Primetime Emmys. Katharine Hepburn is battling the […]

Sep, 12

The Glass Menagerie *** (1950, Jane Wyman, Kirk Douglas, Gertrude Lawrence, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7563

Unfortunately, director Irving Rapper’s 1950 The Glass Menagerie is not an ideal version of one of Tennessee Williams’s most intriguing plays about life in St Louis, thanks to its plodding pace, uncinematic filming and the […]

Sep, 12

Raintree County ** (1957, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 6416

A typecast Elizabeth Taylor settles in comfortably to a tailor-made role as a gorgeous Southern American belle in a showy, Oscar-nominated performance as Susanna Drake, cast opposite her favourite actor friend Montgomery Clift as John […]

Dec, 17

The Beguiled ** (2017, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning) – Movie Review

Director Sofia Coppola says she is adapting the original novel but that still means she remakes Don Siegel’s 1971 The Beguiled, thus inviting comparisons with the Clint Eastwood classic. This is a strange and unwise […]

Jul, 11

Band of Angels ** (1957, Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Rex Reason, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 3978

Director Raoul Walsh’s creaky, unenthusiastic, forgotten 1957 romantic drama Band of Angels stars Clark Gable as handsome but shady Louisiana plantation owner Hamish Bond and Yvonne De Carlo as privileged young southern belle Amantha Starr […]

Jul, 05

Jezebel ***** (1938, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Margaret Lindsay, Fay Bainter, George Brent, Richard Cromwell, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 2698

Director William Wyler’s double Oscar-winning 1938 romantic drama Jezebel stars Bette Davis, who grabs one of the best chances of her glorious career by the scruff of its neck and triumphs. In many ways this is Davis […]

Jul, 14

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