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We the Living [Noi Vivi] **** (1942, Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Rossano Brazzi) – Classic Movie Review 10,260

Director Goffredo Alessandrini’s 1942 Italian romantic war film We the Living [Noi Vivi] stars Alida Valli and Rossano Brazzi and Fosco Giachetti, who give outstanding performances in this tale of the difficult web of relationships […]

Sep, 03

Spring in Park Lane *** (1948, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Tom Walls) – Classic Movie Review 9453

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1948 British romantic comedy film Spring in Park Lane stars Anna Neagle and Wilding Michael in this incredibly popular fluff about an impoverished earl Richard (Wilding) who only pretends to be a footman, […]

Mar, 02

The Fast Lady *** (1962, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Julie Christie, Kathleen Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 8353

The 1962 film The Fast Lady is a genial Carry On-style comedy with amusing turns from James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter and Leslie Phillips. Director Ken Annakin’s 1962 British Eastmancolor film The Fast Lady is […]

Apr, 10

Climbing High *** (1938, Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim, Margaret Vyner) – Classic Movie Review 8102

Carol Reed directs a Jessie Matthews musical comedy way back in 1938, and this surprising early experience must have been good training for his directing Oliver! thirty years later. Director Carol Reed’s 1938 movie Climbing […]

Feb, 07

Summer Storm **** (1944, George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Edward Everett Horton, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 6303

‘The FLASH of a Knife… The SCREAM of a Girl… The WRECK of a Man…’ Hollywood goes Russian in German-born director Douglas Sirk’s really rather splendid 1944 film noir-style crime drama adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s […]

Nov, 24

The Aristocrats *** (2005, Hank Azaria, Shelley Berman, Billy Connolly, George Carlin, Don Rickles, Chris Rock) – Classic Movie Review 5179

Literally a one-joke – and a filthy one at that – director Paul Provenza’s 2005 comedy documentary dissection of what makes people laughs gets 100 more or less famous comics and gets them to re-tell a […]

Mar, 19

The Scarlet Pimpernel ***** (1935, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2949

‘They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him here everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel.’ Director Harold Young’s high-spirited 1935 British adventure movie […]

Oct, 03

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