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Mad Love **** (1934, Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy) – Classic Movie Review 3111

Peter Lorre gives a superbly creepy performance as the mad surgeon Doctor Gogol in the enjoyable 1934 second film of Maurice Renard’s novel The Hands of Orlac. Director Karl Freund’s 1934 MGM horror movie classic […]

Nov, 29

Indiscreet **** (1958, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, David Kossoff, Phyllis Calvert, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 3083

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1958 British-made Technicolor romantic comedy Indiscreet is glitzy fluff, filmed where it is set in London. It finds the ideal star pairing in Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, who put polish on the piece. Grant plays […]

Nov, 23

Somewhere in Time **** (1980, Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin) – Classic Movie Review 3070

Director Jeannot Szwarc’s gorgeous, haunting, heart-aching 1980 sci-fi fantasy romance stars Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier, a young Chicago playwright who goes to the premiere of his new play. When an old lady (Susan French) […]

Nov, 20

Le Dernier Métro [The Last Metro] **** (1980, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Heinz Bennent, Jean Poiret, Andrea Ferreol, Paulette Dubost, Sabine Haudepin) – Classic Movie Review 3021

Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s endearing1980 film is a fine tribute to the French theatre and the spirit of bravery and resistance. You can smell the greasepaint backstage and feel the mood of the wartime Nazi Occupation […]

Nov, 01

The Black Dahlia **** (2006, Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr) – Classic Movie Review 2925

Director Brian De Palma’s superb neo noir movie of James Ellroy’s retro hard-boiled thriller novel The Black Dahlia is criminally neglected and underrated. Ellroy’s novel is inspired by the most notorious real-life unsolved murder in Californian […]

Sep, 26

The Curse of the Cat People **** (1944, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter) – Classic Movie Review 2762

Co-writer/producer Val Lewton’s 1944 sequel to his 1943 Cat People is an eerie, melodramatic, film noir horror fantasy about a lonely child called Amy Reed (Ann Carter, aged six). She gets tangled up with an imaginary world inhabited […]

Jul, 31

Dangerous **** (1935, Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 2697

Director Alfred E Green’s 1935 drama Dangerous stars Bette Davis at her early finest. Her florid, highly mannered, but still effective acting secured the 27-year-old rising star her first Best Actress Oscar for this portrayal here. She […]

Jul, 14

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