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Gumshoe **** (1971, Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay) – Classic Movie Review 3328

Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]

Feb, 05

The Entertainer ***** (1960, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 2527

Director Tony Richardson’s superlative 1960 film version of one of John Osborne’s finest theatre plays The Entertainer has the enormous advantage of encouraging Laurence Olivier to record for posterity one of his greatest stage appearances – […]

May, 27

Washington Square **** (1996, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith) – Classic Movie Review 2447

Director Agnieska Holland’s plush, riveting and indeed quite splendid 1996 remake of Henry James’s novel is a worthy remake of The Heiress (1949), set in 19th century New York. Jennifer Jason Leigh is excellent as […]

May, 02

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 […]

Nov, 24

Tom Jones ***** (1963, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, David Warner, Joan Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 1479

In 1963 movie-goers across the globe fell in love with Albert Finney’s entrancing rogue Tom Jones, and director Tony Richardson’s classic is still as fresh, clever, exciting and exhilarating as the day it was made. […]

Jul, 26

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ***** (1960, Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Bryan Pringle, Shirley Anne Field, Norman Rossington, Hylda Baker) – Classic Movie Review 1,476

Director Karel Reisz’s compelling and convincing 1960 movie version of Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling 1958 first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning made a new international star out of Albert Finney, almost overnight. Finney plays the […]

Jul, 26

Murder on the Orient Express **** (1974, Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1304

Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]

Jun, 07

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