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The Member of the Wedding **** (1952, Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 5919

Director Fred Zinnemann makes a superb job of his stage-to-screen 1952 movie of Carson McCullers’s lovely play and novel The Member of the Wedding about the rites of passage of a tomboyish young girl called […]

Aug, 15

Inside Daisy Clover ***½ (1965, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 5,308

The polished 1965 Hollywood satire drama film Inside Daisy Clover stars a fine team in Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, and Robert Redford and Ruth Gordon, who won Golden Globes. Reputedly Robert Redford did not want […]

Apr, 17

Little Women **** (1949, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Rossano Brazzi, Lucile Watson, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4266

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 movie Little Women is an expensive and colourful remake of director George Cukor’s 1933 classic Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel about four sisters finding romance. The lovely […]

Aug, 29

Je t’aime, moi non plus [I Love You, I Don’t] *** (1975, Jane Birkin, Joe Dallesandro, Hugues Quester, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Gérard Depardieu) – Classic Movie Review 4,223

Jane Birkin stars in the controversial film Je t’aime moi non plus (1976) as the skinny waitress Johnny, who lives and works in a truck-stop, but longs for love. She falls head over heels for […]

Aug, 24

Tiger Bay **** (1959, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 3,669

Director J Lee Thompson’s taut, carefully scripted, well-acted 1959 thriller Tiger Bay stars 12-year-old Hayley Mills, who is superb in her film début as Gillie, a Cardiff dockland tomboy waif who observes Polish merchant marine Korchinsky […]

May, 07

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