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Que la Bête Meure [The Beast Must Die] **** (1969, Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne) – Classic Movie Review 12,182

Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful 1969 French psychological thriller film Que la Bête Meure [The Beast Must Die] is based on the 1938 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake. Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful and […]

Jun, 19

A Majority of One * (1961, Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton) – Classic Movie Review 11,224

‘Most honorable screen smash!’ ‘That joyful hit of the stage is the big, bright delight of the screen.’ ‘It’s even funnier than the play!’ ‘The heart-warmingest picture under the rising sun! The happiest pairing of […]

May, 20

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 Double Man ** (1967, Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill, Anton Diffring, Moira Lister, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 10,182

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s minor 1967 British spy thriller The Double Man stars Yul Brynner in two roles (high-ranking CIA widower Dan Slater and his lookalike enemy agent, Kalmar). A large part of the action […]

Aug, 15

An Autumn Afternoon [Sanma no aji] **** (1962, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada) – Classic Movie Review 9672

Yasujirô Ozu’s elegant and elegiac final film An Autumn Afternoon (1962) serves as a fine epitaph for one of the world’s great directors. In the autumn of his life, Yasujirô Ozu directed the elegant and […]

Apr, 24

Rachel and the Stranger **** (1948, Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 9,512

The 1948 Western film Rachel and the Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as Indian scout Jim, who visits a backwoods cabin in the 1820s and falls for purchased bride Rachel (Loretta Young), whose jealous husband Big […]

Mar, 16

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