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Catch-22 **** (Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Paula Prentiss, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 7941
Buck Henry’s screenplay to bring to the screen the complex Joseph Heller satirical novel Catch-22 about the absurdities of life in an American wartime Air Force camp is not perfect. But it is intelligent, dark […]
Upstairs and Downstairs ***(1959, Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, James Robertson Justice, Sidney James, Daniel Massey, Claudia Cardinale, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 7912
It is party time at the home of newly-weds Richard and Kate Barry (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) in director Ralph Thomas’s 1959 comedy Upstairs and Downstairs, a late-Fifties British sitcom-type study of the perils […]
The Pied Piper *** (1942, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J Carrol Naish Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Peggy Ann Garner ) – Classic Movie Review 7910
Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]
Sea Devils *** (1953, Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Bryan Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 7842
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 romantic historical action adventure drama Sea Devils stars Rock Hudson as Gilliatt, the swashbuckling fisherman cum smuggler who falls for beautiful English spy Drucette (Yvonne De Carlo) and sets her on […]
Roadhouse Nights *** (1930, Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante) – Classic Movie Review 7809
Director Hobart Henley’s 1930 mob thriller Roadhouse Nights is a cult item as it is loosely based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic gangster novel Red Harvest, which is also the basis for numerous films, including […]
The Comedy Man *** (1964, Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Norman Rossington, Angela Douglas, Edmund Purdom, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 7761
The 1964 British drama film The Comedy Man tells a backstage showbiz story about TV deodorant adverts finally making a star out of ageing, seedy actor Chick Byrd (Kenneth More). Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1964 British […]
Bullet for a Badman *** (1964, Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee) – Classic Movie Review 7715
Director R G Springsteen’s lusty 1964 B-movie Western Bullet for a Badman stars Audie Murphy as Logan Keliher, a gun-slinging lawman gone good and peaceful, who is forced for the sake of his wife and a […]