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- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
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- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
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Love & Friendship ***½ (2016, Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Tom Bennett ) – Movie Review
Writer-director Whit Stillman takes on Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan. It’s a minor work and it can’t help being a minor film. But Stillman tries all he can and knows to make a success of it, with good, highly civilised, polished results […]
The Scarlet Pimpernel ***** (1935, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2949
‘They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him here everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel.’ Director Harold Young’s high-spirited 1935 British adventure movie […]
The Curse of the Werewolf **** (1961, Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Romain) – Classic Movie Review 2680
Director Terence Fisher’s 1961 British movie The Curse of the Werewolf gives the 23-year-old Oliver Reed his first taste of stardom as the furry fellow in this creepy Hammer horror set in a Technicolored, sinister […]
Casanova ***** (1976, Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2130
Director Federico Fellini’s exuberant 1976 masterwork is an amazing-looking, awesome movie, in which an unexpectedly but perfectly cast Donald Sutherland astonishes as the forehead-shaved, bewigged, foppish 18th-century Venetian rake, Giacomo Casanova. What’s on screen is […]
Rob Roy *** (1995, Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth) – Classic Movie Review 1,489
The lusty 1995 box-office hit adventure film Rob Roy is based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott. Set in early 18th-century Scotland, it tells the tale of clan chief Rob Roy MacGregor (Liam […]
Tom Jones ***** (1963, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, David Warner, Joan Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 1479
In 1963 movie-goers across the globe fell in love with Albert Finney’s entrancing rogue Tom Jones, and director Tony Richardson’s classic is still as fresh, clever, exciting and exhilarating as the day it was made. […]
Quills **** (2000, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 1432
Director Philip Kaufman’s real-life period drama stars Geoffrey Rush, the 1997 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Shine. He relishes a great, lip-smacking turn as the infamous Marquis de Sade, the French writer, jailed in a Parisian lunatic […]