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- 29 Acacia Avenue [The Facts of Love] *** (1945, Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, Carla Lehmann, Jimmy Hanley, Jill Evans, Hubert Gregg, Dinah Sheridan, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,481
- Take My Life **** (1947, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L Sullivan, Rosalie Crutchley) – Classic Movie Review 13,480
- Conclave ***** (2024, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini) – Classic Movie Review 13,479
- Scott and Sid *** (2021, Richard Mason, Tom Blyth, Charlotte Milchard) – Classic Movie Review 13,478
- Dual Alibi ** (1947, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Ronald Frankau, Terence De Marney, Abraham Sofaer, Eugene Deckers, Ben Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,477
- Four Friends [Georgia’s Friends] [Georgia] *** (1981, Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Michael Huddleston, Jim Metzler, Reed Birney) – Classic Movie Review 13,476
- The Last Shot You Hear ** (1969, Hugh Marlowe, Zena Walker, Patricia Haines, William Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 13,475
- Catacombs [The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die] *** (1964, Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow, Neil McCallum, Georgina Cookson) – Classic Movie Review 13,474
- Plainclothes *** (2025, Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Amy Forsyth, Christian Cooke, Maria Dizzia) – Classic Movie Review 13,473
- The Capture *** (1950, Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 13,472
Blood Wedding **** (1981, Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez) – Classic Movie Review 9836
A thrilling experience, the 1981 Spanish film Blood Wedding [Bodas de Sangre] is one of the great dance movies. Director Carlos Saura watches with his cameras as Antonio Gades rehearses his flamenco version of the […]
Carmen ***½ (1984, Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi) – Classic Movie Review 9835
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
Carmen **** (1983, Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez) – Classic Movie Review 9834
Antonio Gades (as the choreographer Antonio and the film’s real choreographer) and sizzling Laura del Sol (as the main dancer Carmen) kick up a storm in director Carlos Saura’s 1983 Spanish dance film Carmen. In […]
Big Jim McLain (1952, John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness) – Classic Movie Review 9833
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1952 thriller Big Jim McLain is McCarthyite rightist propaganda from John Wayne’s production company, with John Wayne and James Arness as US government agents – House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain […]
The Violent Men *** (1955, Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson, Brian Keith, Dianne Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9832
The 1955 Western film The Violent Men stars Glenn Ford as John Parrish, a Union officer who returns from the Civil War a pacifist, but is stirred into violent action by ruthless Lew Wilkison (Edward […]
Violent City [Città violenta] *** (1970, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland, Umberto Orsini, Michel Constantin, Ray Saunders) – Classic Movie Review 9831
Director Sergio Sollima’s 1970 Italian-French urban crime thriller Violent City [Città violenta], stars Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Telly Savalas. It opens with an impressive car chase sequence on the island of St Thomas in […]
The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] **** (1966, Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 9830
Western cult stars Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian give great workouts for their practised, long-polished turns in director Sergio Sollima’s tough-toned 1966 European Western film The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] about a […]
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- 29 Acacia Avenue [The Facts of Love] *** (1945, Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, Carla Lehmann, Jimmy Hanley, Jill Evans, Hubert Gregg, Dinah Sheridan, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,481
- Take My Life **** (1947, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L Sullivan, Rosalie Crutchley) – Classic Movie Review 13,480
- Conclave ***** (2024, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini) – Classic Movie Review 13,479
- Scott and Sid *** (2021, Richard Mason, Tom Blyth, Charlotte Milchard) – Classic Movie Review 13,478
- Dual Alibi ** (1947, Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Ronald Frankau, Terence De Marney, Abraham Sofaer, Eugene Deckers, Ben Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,477
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