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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks ** (1988, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9391
Director Bud Yorkin films an inferior sequel to the 1981 hit Arthur in the 1988 comedy Arthur 2: On the Rocks, with all three stars from the original returning, but not the original writer-director Steve […]
Come Fill the Cup *** (1951, James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Gig Young, Raymond Massey, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 9319
James Cagney gives a powerful, yet well-controlled performance as a newsman called Lew Marsh fighting alcoholism, in director Gordon Douglas’s involving 1951 study of the evils of drink, Come Fill the Cup, based on a […]
Honey Boy **** (2019, Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Laura San Giacomo, FKA Twigs) – Movie Review
More than just a bit uncomfortably, Shia LaBeouf plays a version of his own domineering father in Honey Boy (2019), an ex-rodeo clown with a prison record called James Lort, in LaBeouf’s thinly semi-fictionalised story […]
Opening Night **** (1977, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert)- Classic Movie Review 9,089
Gena Rowlands is splendid as an ageing actress devastated when her biggest fan dies in an accident on her opening night, in John Cassavetes’s appealing 1977 drama film Opening Night. A long (it runs 144 […]
The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] **** (1983, Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 8952
Director John Mackenzie’s 1983 British drama The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] is based on the novel by Graham Greene and stars Michael Caine at his best and most convincing as the drunken honorary British […]
The Crowd Roars **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 8895
Director Richard Thorpe’s tough 1938 MGM black and white boxing drama The Crowd Roars stars pretty boy Robert Taylor [real name Spangler Arlington Brugh] as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way through to a manlier […]
The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640
Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]