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The Sins of Rachel Cade ** (1961, Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore) – Classic Movie Review 12,047

The 1961 drama film The Sins of Rachel Cade stars Angie Dickinson as an American Christian missionary nurse, involved in romance and trouble in the Belgian Congo during World War Two.  Director Gordon Douglas’s 1961 […]

Apr, 06

The Aviator’s Wife [La femme de l’aviateur] **** (1981, Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 9460

The Aviator’s Wife [La Femme de l’Aviateur] (1981) is an excellent conversation piece from Eric Rohmer (the opening one of his Comédies et Proverbes series) about a young Frenchman François (Philippe Marlaud) and the eponymous […]

Mar, 04

The Earth Dies Screaming ** (1964, Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 9242

Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 British sci-fi horror quickie The Earth Dies Screaming is cheap and cheerful. [Spoiler alert] Robots have turned most folk in England into zombies. Well we knew all this telly watching wouldn’t […]

Jan, 08

Arise, My Love **** (1940, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Dennis O’Keefe, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 5177

Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland are delightful as a vivacious American reporter in Europe and the dashing aviator she helps out of tight scrapes at the end of the Spanish Civil War and the start of […]

Mar, 19

Christopher Strong *** (1933, Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 3418

Katharine Hepburn does well in director Dorothy Arzner’s 1933 romantic drama as strong-willed but dashing aviatrix Lady Cynthia Darrington who falls for English member of Parliament Sir Christopher Strong (Colin Clive), threatening his happy marriage to wife Lady Strong (Billie […]

Feb, 27

The Aviator *** (2004, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 592

Director Martin Scorsese’s patchy, rambling and overlong 2004 biopic of legendary film director and plane and movie mogul Howard Hughes is sometimes  hard work, and nothing new emerges. But it re-tells a story most people won’t know […]

Dec, 30

It Happened One Night ***** (1934, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert) – Classic Film Review 86

Director Frank Capra’s deliciously playful romantic comedy took all the big prizes at the 1935 Academy Awards. It made history as the only film to scoop all five main Oscars (best picture, actor, actress, screenplay, […]

Jul, 24

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