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Monterey Pop **** (1968, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar) – Classic Movie Review 8701

It is time to get your love beads and purple velour pants for the 1968 classic rockumentary Monterey Pop by director D A Pennebaker of the legendary rock music festival concert (pre-dating Woodstock) that started […]

Jul, 13

Divorce Italian Style **** (1961, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli) – Classic Movie Review 8686

Packed with comic passion, Pietro Germi’s thoroughly entertaining 1961 Italian commedia nera [black comedy] film Divorce Italian Style [Divorzio all’Italiana] stars the indispensable Marcello Mastroianni as a poverty-stricken Sicilian aristocrat, Baron Ferdinando Cefalù, who wants […]

Jul, 09

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! ** (1965, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 8667

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Is an off-target, iffy, campy and very silly Sixties satirical comedy from writer William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote The Exorcist. Richard Crenna plays […]

Jul, 02

The Incredible Journey *** (1963, Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed, Sandra Scott) – Classic Movie Review 8577

‘Three against the wilderness… nothing could stop them – only instinct to guide them across 200 perilous miles of Canadian wilderness!’ The animal cast – Muffy as Bodger the bull terrier, Syn Cat as Tao […]

Jun, 10

The Queen’s Guards ** (1961, Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 7961

Director Michael Powell handles this 1961 British film The Queen’s Guards as a dull, flag-waving tale of two generations of The Queen’s Grenadier Guards, old Captain Fellowes and young John Fellowes (Raymond Massey and Daniel […]

Dec, 30

Peter and Pavla [Cerný Petr] [Black Peter] **** (1964, Ladislav Jakim, Pavla Martinkova, Jan Vostrcil) – Classic Movie Review 7042

Director Milos Forman’s fresh, lively and delightful 1964 Czechoslovak feature debut (after three documentaries) is a satirical comedy drama full of youthful enthusiasm. Ladislav Jakim plays the young shop detective Peter [Petr], who is getting […]

May, 12

Buster *** (1988, Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb) – Classic Movie Review 7039

Director David Green’s entertaining, sentimental 1988 real-life thriller biopic stars Phil Collins, who makes his star début as 1963 Great Train Robber, Buster Edwards, playing him as a London working-class lad who wants to make […]

May, 12

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