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Cry, the Beloved Country **** (1951, Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8942

Racial tensions in South Africa explode into violence as black preacher the Reverend Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee)’s son kills white landowner James Jarvis (Charles Carson)’s boy, in director Zoltan Korda’s distinguished 1952 British drama Cry, […]

Sep, 26

Lady Chatterley’s Lover [L’Amant de Lady Chatterley] ** (1955, Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, Erno Crisa) – Classic Movie Review 8907

Director Marc Allégret’s 1955 black and white drama Lady Chatterley’s Lover [L’Amant de Lady Chatterley] is an early French adaptation of the once scandalous D H Lawrence novel about a high-born English lady, Lady Constance […]

Sep, 15

Lady in the Iron Mask *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Alan Hale Jr, Judd Holdren, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 8904

Louis Hayward, who had been The Man in the Iron Mask (that is Prince Philippe of Gascony, the nice twin brother of despotic French King Louis XIV) in the 1939 film, this time stars as […]

Sep, 14

A Cry in the Night *** (1956, Raymond Burr, Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Richard Anderson, Irene Hervey) – Classic Movie Review 8900

‘THE TEEN-AGE DATE IN LOVERS’ LANE THEY’LL NEVER LET HER FORGET!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1956 film noir A Cry in the Night stars Raymond Burr, who is typecast again as a creepy, mother-fixated heavy and […]

Sep, 12

Enchanted Island * (1958, Dana Andrews, Jane Powell, Don Dubbins) – Classic Movie Review 8881

‘He dared to love a cannibal princess!’ Director Allan Dwan’s colourful 1958 action adventure drama Enchanted Island is a cheap and none too cheerful version of Herman Melville’s less famous novel Typee, though it is […]

Sep, 07

Eye of the Devil ** (1967, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Emlyn Williams, Flora Robson, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Sharon Tate) – Classic Movie Review 8842

Director J Lee Thompson’s promising but clunky 1967 occult crime horror mystery thriller Eye of the Devil stars David Niven, who looks lost as Philippe de Montfaucon, the wine-growing French marquis who has to be […]

Aug, 19

The Strange Affair *** (1968, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Jack Watson, George A Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 8836

Director David Greene’s 1968 British crime thriller The Strange Affair stars Michael York, who has a strange role as rookie copper PC Peter Strange, a young metropolitan policeman whose honesty is tested when he comes […]

Aug, 16

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