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One Man’s Journey ** (1933, Lionel Barrymore, May Robson, Dorothy Jordan, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Buster Phelps) – Classic Movie Review 10,488

Director John S Robertson’s sentimental 1933 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama One Man’s Journey stars Lionel Barrymore as Eli Watt, a canny, but selfless old doctor who returns to his sleepy hometown from […]

Oct, 31

A Man to Remember *** (1938, Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 10,478

Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama A Man to Remember stars Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis and Lee Bowman. It is the flashback-told biography of a selfless town doctor, Doctor John […]

Oct, 29

The Doctor *** (1991, William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo, Wendy Crewson, Bill Macy) – Classic Movie Review 8773

Director Randa Haines’s polished 1992 drama The Doctor stars William Hurt as rich, uncaring, selfish San Francisco surgeon Dr Jack MacKee (favourite phrase ‘get in and get out’), who finds that he too is faced […]

Jul, 30

Ash Wednesday * (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 7,012

The 1973 mystery drama film Ash Wednesday is a hysterical farrago, with Elizabeth Taylor as a married woman in her 50s trying to make herself look young via gross plastic surgery in Italy, where she […]

May, 06

Dirty Pretty Things **** (2002, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo) – Classic Movie Review 6104

Director Stephen Frears’s 2002 British crime drama thriller is one of his successes. Chiwetel Ejiofor shines as Okwe, an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London working both as a cabbie and in a hotel, in Stephen Frears’s […]

Oct, 17

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) **** (2009, Dieter Laser, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yennie) – Classic Movie Review 6103

Brace yourselves, folks, for this truly, madly, deeply shocking 2009 Dutch horror thriller, made with great flair by director Tom Six, who keeps the suspense, tension and terror on the boil throughout. It is horrible, […]

Oct, 17

Ensign Pulver ** (1964, Robert Walker Jr, Burl Ives, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 5883

Producer-director Joshua Logan’s 1964 comedy sequel stars Robert Walker Jr as Ensign Pulver, but alas he is not up to stepping into the Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon’s shoes in the original role in […]

Aug, 08

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