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Paranoiac ***½ (1963, Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham, Alexander Davion, Liliane Brousse) – Classic Movie Review 3305
Hammer Films’ 1963 thriller Paranoiac is loosely based on Josephine Tey’s brilliant novel Brat Farrar, in which a charming young man long believed dead returns to his family estate to claim his inheritance. Director Freddie […]
Digging to China *** (1997, Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cathy Moriarty) – Classic Movie Review 3240
‘My mother lived in one world. I was always looking for another. Once I tried to squeeze down a rabbit hole. Then I tried digging all the way to China. ‘ The actor Timothy Hutton […]
Journey’s End **** (1930, Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 3043
Journey’s End (1930) was a huge success and launched the film careers of James Whale and Colin Clive, who stayed on in America to make Frankenstein (1931) together. Debut film director James Whale’s 1930 early […]
Leaving Las Vegas **** (1995, Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands) – Classic Movie Review 2725
Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1995 drama stars Nicolas Cage, who won a Best Actor Oscar as Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic screenwriter who is fired by his Hollywood studio for his drinking, and heads for Las Vegas […]
Human Desire **** (1954, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 2,599
Fritz Lang’s moody 1954 thriller film noir Human Desire is a follow-up to his 1953 success The Big Heat, and again stars both Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. Director Fritz Lang’s moody 1954 thriller film […]
The Cure ***** (1917, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 2537
This now restored 25-minute classic silent comedy short from 1917 is one writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best. Unusually not in his famous Tramp costume and guise, Chaplin plays a drunk (The Inebriate) who goes to dry […]
The Long Goodbye **** (1973, Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 1881
Director Robert Altman’s 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe, […]