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Arrest Bulldog Drummond *** (1939, John Howard, Heather Angel, H B Warner, Reginald Denny, E E Clive, Jean Fenwick, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6135
Director James P Hogan’s 1939 Paramount Pictures B-movie series crime thriller Arrest Bulldog Drummond is a modest but engaging enough Bulldog Drummond series entry, the sixth in the franchise. John Howard stars as Captain Hugh […]
Hound-Dog Man *** (1959, Fabian Forte, Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Dodie Stevens, Arthur O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 5958
Fabian Forte’s first leading role is director Don Siegel’s Hound-Dog Man (1959), based on the 1949 novel by Fred Gipson (who later wrote the better known Old Yeller, filmed by Disney in 1957). Fabian co-stars with the older and […]
I Am a Camera ** (1955, Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 5877
Director Henry Cornelius’s 1955 British drama is a lacklustre, uninspired, disappointing film, especially considering the quality of Christopher Isherwood’s brilliant stories of an Englishman abroad in Weimar-era Thirties Berlin in his classic book Goodbye to […]
The Weak and the Wicked [Young and Willing] **** (1954, Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors, Rachel Roberts, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 5747
‘Confessions of an Ex-Convict Who Strips Bare the Raw Facts!’ Co-writer/ director J Lee Thompson’s 1953 British prison drama stars a formidable sextet in Glynis Johns, John Gregson, Diana Dors, Jane Hylton, Rachel Roberts and Sidney […]
Lilac Time [Love Never Dies] **** (1928, Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 5487
Director George Fitzmaurice’s sweet, simple and strong 1928 romantic drama is a silent movie with a musical score and sound effects, featuring the song Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, and has attractive performances from […]
City of Tiny Lights *** (2016, Riz Ahmed, Billie Piper, James Floyd, Cush Jumbo, Roshan Seth) – Movie Review
Riz Ahmed impresses again, lighting up the screen as urban London Asian private eye Tommy Akhtar, who is hired by local prostitute Melody (Cush Jumbo) to find her missing hooker flat-mate and is plunged into a dangerous […]
Port of Seven Seas *** (1938, Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, John Beal, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 5267
Director James Whale’s haunting bitter-sweet 1938 MGM romantic drama might not entirely be typical for him, but nevertheless it is good material for him to get to work on. It is based on Marcel Pagnol’s […]