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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
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- 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
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Age of Consent *** (1969, James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 8352
The 24-year-old Helen Mirren gets to star with James Mason and be directed by Michael Powell. The 1969 Australian romantic comedy drama Age of Consent is a straggler from the dog days of the glittering […]
A Star Is Born ** (2018, Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott) – Movie Review
A Star Is Born (2018) is a capable piece of film-making and some of it is entertaining but a lot of it is pretty dull, drippy and dreary, surprisingly with Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta) marginally […]
Beloved Infidel ** (1959, Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 7562
Famed, all-time-great American author F Scott Fitzgerald’s last, struggling drink-sodden years as a 1930s pre-World War Two Hollywood scriptwriter, and his torrid affair with witty young English columnist Sheilah Graham while his wife Zelda is in an […]
Primrose Path **** (1940, Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Miles Mander, Queenie Vassar) – Classic Movie Review 6721
The risqué 1940 romantic drama film Primrose Path stars Ginger Rogers as young Ellie May, who meets a man (Joel McCrea) who agrees to marry her but does not know about her unsavoury family background. […]
Le Feu Follet [The Fire Within] **** (1963, Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Bernard Noël, Alexandra Stewart, Léna Skerla) – Classic Movie Review 6085
Writer-director Louis Malle’s 1963 film portrait of the final day in the life of a suicidal, alcoholic writer, Alain Leroy (played by Maurice Ronet), is both penetrating and incisive. He emerges disgusted from a course […]
Time without Pity **** (1957, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen, Leo McKern, Ann Todd, Peter Cushing) – Classic Movie Review 5,844
Michael Redgrave stars in Joseph Losey’s 1957 film noir Time without Pity as a hard-drinking dad, who, in the middle of a drying-out phase, comes to London to see if he can find out anything […]
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn **** (1945, Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 5813
Director Elia Kazan’s warm, meticulous, fully-realised and believable 1945 movie re-creation of life in working-class Brooklyn in the early 1900s before World War One is based on Betty Smith’s novel. It centres on one Irish […]