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- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
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The Golden Falcon [Il Falco d’Oro] ** (1955, Anna Maria Ferrero, Massimo Serato, Nadia Gray, Frank Latimore) – Classic Movie Review 8987
Director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s colourful, lively and fast-paced 1955 dubbed Italian romantic adventure swashbuckler The Golden Falcon [Il Falco d’Oro] is set in Sienna in the 17th century. The story is about two rival families […]
There Goes the Bride ** (1932, Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Basil Radford, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 8105
Jessie Matthews’s first major film roles were in Out of the Blue (1931) and then two films directed by Albert de Courville, The Midshipmaid (1932) and There Goes the Bride (1932), a British screwball black and white romantic musical comedy hit, also […]
Hot Blood ** (1956, Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 7924
Made in lurid Technicolor and wholly unsuitable widescreen, director Nicholas Ray’s 1955 Hot Blood is totally camp, kitsch, trashy and, quite honestly, just plain bad. But it is nevertheless quite a lot of fun to […]
The Breadwinner ***** (2017, voices of Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus) – Movie Review
The Breadwinner (2017) is a beautifully drawn, unusually involving, eye-opener animation from Nora Twomey, co-director of The Secret of Kells (2009) and head of story for Song of the Sea (2014). It is story based. It […]
Lady Macbeth **** (2016, Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis) – Movie Review
Director William Oldroyd’s film adaptation of Russian author Nikolai Leskov’s novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk is a riveting, tough-toned and chilling nail-biter. Giving it her all and a bit more, Florence Pugh is memorable […]
Saraband for Dead Lovers **** (1948, Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Françoise Rosay, Flora Robson, Peter Bull, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 5058
Directors Basil Dearden and Michael Relph’s attractive 1948 British oddity Saraband for Dead Lovers stars Joan Greenwood as sad young Sophie Dorothea of Celle, the arranged-marriage wife of the effete Prince George Louis of Hanover, […]
Learning to Drive ***½ (2014, Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury) – Movie Review
Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley are the driving forces behind director Isabel Coixet’s diverting and attractive romantic comedy drama. I hope they don’t mind me calling them old pros, it’s meant to be a real […]