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The Pied Piper **** (1972, Donovan, Donald Pleasence, Michael Hordern, Jack Wild, Diana Dors, John Hurt, Roy Kinnear, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 5195

Esteemed French film director Jacques Demy came to Germany and Britain to make this undervalued 1972 film version of the tale of the 14th-century strolling minstrel who leads a plague of rats out of Hamelin, […]

Mar, 23

The Alamo * (2004, Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarría, Jordi Mollà, Leon Rippy, Marc Blucas) – 5055

‘One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.’ – Colonel William Travis. Remember The Alamo? Well, not this version, anyway, for director John Lee Hancock ‘s misjudged, murky-looking and mostly boring 2004 […]

Feb, 24

Love and Death **** (1975, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Harold Gould, Jessica Harper, James Tolkan) – Classic Movie Review 4961

There is a lot of fun to be had from writer-director Woody Allen’s polished, handsome-looking and fast-moving 1975 satirical comedy from the far-off happy days when he was spoofing art rather than trying to make […]

Jan, 29

Another Dawn ** (1937, Errol Flynn, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Mary Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 4756

Director William Dieterle’s 1937 romantic melodrama film was an old-fashioned antique even when it was new. Its mix of adventure plus romance in the British Empire is a soap-opera-style time-filler set in an imperial African […]

Dec, 08

You’ll Never Get Rich *** (1941, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa Massen) – Classic Movie Review 4711

Director Sidney Lanfield’s 1941 show is a very big-budget musical from the Columbia studio that stars Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in a ‘triumphant teaming of beauty and rhythm’, which, while hugely entertaining, never quite […]

Nov, 27

The Story of GI Joe **** (1945, Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele) – Classic Movie Review 3253

Burgess Meredith lands a great role as real-life American newsman Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard War Correspondent, in this riveting autobiographical war picture based on Pyle’s wartime memoirs Brave Men and Here Is Your War. Director William A […]

Jan, 09

Glory **** (1989, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Andre Braugher, John Finn, Jihmi Kennedy, Donovan Leitch Jr) – Classic Movie Review 3192

Director Edward Zwick’s distinguished, potent and highly emotional 1989 war movie about America’s first all-black volunteer company at the time of the American Civil War is, as it must be, a visceral experience as a violent and […]

Dec, 29

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