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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
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Posts Tagged "1920s"
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You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge) – Classic Movie Review 7399
Ollie, French horn player: ‘I wouldn’t mind training a seal or an elephant, but you’re hopeless!’ Director Edgar Kennedy’s 1928 short subject film You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] is one of Stan Laurel and […]
The Fortune ** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 7217
Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty star in Mike Nichols’s 1975 flop farcical comedy The Fortune as bumbling conmen who abduct an heiress. Stockard Channing is charming and amusing as the heiress. ‘It takes three to […]
Sweet Country **** (2017, Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review
Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]
Isadora *** (1968, Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6635
Director Karel Reisz’s great-looking 1968 British biopic of the 1920s ‘modern’ dancer Isadora Duncan is flawed but fascinating. Even if she herself is no dancer, Vanessa Redgrave impresses in an Oscar-nominated performance that exactly captures […]
Goodbye, Mr Chips ***½ (1969, Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Michael Bryant, Alison Leggatt, George Baker, Jack Hedley, Siân Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 6338
Director Herbert Ross’s expensive ($9 million) big-scale musical version of the famous 1939 Robert Donat weepie was a dangerously risky idea in the radical days of 1969 and it duly flopped despite the MGM fanfare […]
Women in Love **** (1969, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 5455
Director Ken Russell’s safe and successful 1969 transition to the movies of D H Lawrence’s great novel Women in Love stars Glenda Jackson, who won her first Oscar for her part as Gudrun Brangwen. The […]
The Boy Friend **** (1971, Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Tommy Tune, Barbara Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 5446
Writer-director Ken Russell brings Sandy Wilson’s enchanting show spoofing Twenties stage musicals to the screen as a delightful 1971 British film homage to Thirties Hollywood musicals, particularly those of Busby Berkeley. Twiggy captivates in her […]