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- Brief Encounter (1974, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 13,411
- The Six Men ** (1951, Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes, Peter Bull, Michael Evans) – Classic Movie Review 13,410
- Battle of the V-1 *** (1958, Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, David Knight, Esmond Knight, Christopher Lee, Carl Jaffe, Peter Madden) – Classic Movie Review 13,409
- Make Me an Offer *** (1954, Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley, Finlay Currie, Meier Tzelniker, Ernest Thesiger, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 13,408
- The St Louis Bank Robbery *** (1959, Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, Molly McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 13,407
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer ** (1956, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr, Faron Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,406
- Paranormal Activity *** (2007, Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat) – Classic Movie Review 13,405
- Guilty? ** (1956, John Justin, Barbara Laage, Donald Wolfit, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 13,404
- End of the Century [Fin de Siglo] *** (2019, Juan Barberini, Ramón Pujol, Mía Maestro) – Classic Movie Review 13,403
- At War with the Army ** (1951, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Polly Bergen, Jimmie Dundee, Angela Greene, Dick Stabile) – Classic Movie Review 13,402
Posts Tagged "1930s"
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King of the Hill **** (1993, Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn) – Classic Movie Review 2136
Writer-director Steven Soderbergh’s moving, witty and highly engaging 1993 coming-of-age drama stars Jesse Bradford as a resourceful 12-year-old boy called Aaron who struggles to survive growing up in Depression-era St Louis. The boy plots and schemes […]
Annie **** (1982, Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tim Curry, Ann Reinking) – Classic Movie Review 1882
Little orphan Annie is rescued from a 1930s life of misery, poverty and the orphanage by the incredibly rich and mushy-hearted benefactor Daddy Warbucks in director John Huston’s 1982 musical film of the famous Broadway […]
The Purple Rose of Cairo **** (1985, Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 1812
Writer-director Woody Allen’s witty, bitter-sweet 1985 romantic fantasy comedy is a enchanting treat. It won the Bafta award for Best Film and the César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize at […]
Sweet and Lowdown *** (1999, Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Anthony LaPaglia, Uma Thurman, Woody Allen) – Classic Movie Review 1802
Writer-director Woody Allen’s 1999 Jazz Age fable takes the form of a fanciful, fictional tribute to the legendary 30s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Sean Penn), who was second only to Django Reinhardt as a music […]
Victor Victoria **** (1982, Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1462
Writer-director Blake Edwards’s bubbly and witty 1982 gender-bender musical remake of a 1933 German comedy, Viktor und Viktoria, is huge vivacious fun. It provides an ideal vehicle for his wife Julie Andrews as a struggling female soprano […]
Jimmy’s Hall *** (2014, dir Ken Loach) – Movie Review
Barry Ward stars as real-life Irish communist political activist Jimmy Gralton, who is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s. Ward is excellent but Jim Norton is even better as his nemesis, Father Sheridan, […]
Fantasia 2000 **** (Disney Animation Studio) – Classic Movie Review 1251
Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt, co-produced Fantasia 2000, which entered production in 1990, was released in 1999 and features seven new segments performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor James Levine. There’s lots […]