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The Sleeping Tiger *** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Hugh Griffith, Maxine Audley, Glyn Houston, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 4024

Director Joseph Losey’s 1954 British thriller The Sleeping Tiger stars Dirk Bogarde, who finds unlikely casting as Frank Clemmons, a cocky young thug brought by fate to the home of psychiatrist Dr Clive Esmond (Alexander […]

Jul, 15

The Bigamist ***½ (1953, Ida Lupino, Edmond O’Brien, Joan Fontaine, Edmund Gwenn, Jane Darwell, Kenneth Tobey, John Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 3416

In the first ever instance of a female star directing herself, Ida Lupino directs and stars in this intriguing, involving and revealing 1953 film about a travelling salesman called Harry Graham (Edmond O’Brien) who is […]

Feb, 27

Parrish *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 3383

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves, star Troy Donahue, composer Max Steiner and cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr all reunite after their 1959 success with A Summer Place for this new overwrought 1961 romantic drama, Parrish. The likeable and […]

Feb, 19

La Peau Douce [Silken Skin] **** (1964, Jean Dessailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti) – Classic Movie Review 3010

For his dazzling fourth feature, co-writer and director François Truffaut returns in 1964 to the love triangle theme of his previous movie, Jules et Jim, but this time with a weak man (Jean Dessailly) at the […]

Oct, 27

The Scarlet Letter * (1995, Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 2948

Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]

Oct, 03

Fear in the Night ** (1972, Judy Geeson, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 2895

A strong cast bolsters co-writer/ director Jimmy Sangster’s sporadically frightening and sometimes inventive 1972 Hammer Films shocker. Judy Geeson stars as a nervy young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who is terrorised by strange […]

Sep, 08

L’Enfer [Hell] **** (1994, Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 2360

Director Claude Chabrol tries to make belated amends for the way the French New Wave he was part of attacked the work of Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, by […]

Apr, 05

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