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- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- 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
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- 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
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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The Mad Genius *** (1931, John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, Boris Karloff, Frankie Darro) – Classic Movie Review 12,691
Michael Curtiz’s hysterical, wildly entertaining 1931 Warner Bros drama film The Mad Genius stars John Barrymore as crippled puppeteer who turns a boy into a great ballet dancer who falls in love with a young […]
The Tales of Beatrix Potter **** (1971, Frederick Ashton, Alexander Grant, Lesley Collier, Wayne Sleep) – Classic Movie Review 11,724
Director Reginald Mills’s charming 1971 British ballet film The Tales of Beatrix Potter [Peter Rabbit and the Tales of Beatrix Potter] brings Potter’s most beloved characters to life in an ideal live-action classic. Beatrix Potter’s delightful […]
White Nights *** (1985, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page, Isabella Rossellini) – Classic Movie Review 10,750
Director Taylor Hackford’s 1985 movie White Nights is a daft but entertaining chase-dance drama, a peculiar hybrid of musical and thriller, giving good chances to players difficult to cast. Mikhail Baryshnikov charismatically plays a Russian […]
The Dancing Masters *** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey, Margaret Dumont, Matt Briggs, Allan Lane, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 8497
Though director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1943 comedy The Dancing Masters is not the best of Laurel and Hardy, there is plenty of busy story taken at a fast lick and Stan and Ollie are […]
Honeymoon [Luna de miel] *** (1959, Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina, Antonio, Léonide Massine, José Nieto) – Classic Movie Review 7959
Director Michael Powell, separated from his regular film-making partner Emeric Pressburger, went to Spain in 1959 to make the last of his ballet films, Honeymoon [Luna de Miel], a listless romance about an ex-ballerina Anna […]
Never Let Me Go ** (1953, Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Richard Haydn, Belita, Bernard Miles, Kenneth More, Karel Stepanek, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 7789
Director Delmer Daves’s 1953 Never Let Me Go is a humdrum romantic adventure from Clark Gable, the erstwhile king of Hollywood, playing Philip Sutherland, a US newsman stationed in Moscow who falls for and marries Russian […]
Isadora *** (1968, Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6635
Director Karel Reisz’s great-looking 1968 British biopic of the 1920s ‘modern’ dancer Isadora Duncan is flawed but fascinating. Even if she herself is no dancer, Vanessa Redgrave impresses in an Oscar-nominated performance that exactly captures […]