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Posts Tagged "based on novel"
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The Garden of Allah *** (1927, Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovich, Marcel Vibert) – Classic Movie Review 7454
Director Rex Ingram’s 1927 romantic drama The Garden of Allah is the second – silent – film of Robert S Hichens’s 1904 British novel, most famous now in the 1936 version The Garden of Allah with Marlene […]
Mister Buddwing * (1966, James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Ross) – Classic Movie Review 7435
The 1966 movie Mister Buddwing stars James Garner as a man who comes round on a park seat in New York’s Central Park and cannot remember who he is. Garner recalled: ‘Worst picture I ever […]
Life at the Top *** (1965, Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 7433
Director Ted Kotcheff’s modest but diverting enough 1965 drama Life at the Top is the soap-opera-style sequel to Room at the Top (1959) that, even while it entertains, misses the quality and bitter taste of the […]
The Meg * (2018, Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson) – Movie Review
Okay, so we are not expecting a remake of Citizen Kane any time soon from Jason Statham, but really The Meg’s pretty much the dregs. It says something about where we are today that this is the […]
Madame Bovary *** (1937, Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher, Ferdinand Marian) – Classic Movie Review 7346
Director Gerhard Lamprecht’s 1937 German version of Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel of Madame Bovary is heavy handed but intriguing, involving and well crafted. The iconic Polish silent movie star Pola Negri (1897–1987) makes an attractive […]
Madame Bovary **** (1934, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Fernand Fabre, Daniel Lecourtois) – Classic Movie Review 7345
[Spoiler alert] Jean Renoir’s captivating and compelling 1934 film version of Gustave Flaubert’s classic literature novel story of how Emma Bovary (Valentine Tessier) is stifled after she marries boring Normandy doctor Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir, […]
It Was an Accident (2000, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Thandie Newton, Nicola Stapleton, Neil Dudgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7313
It was a comedy? No, I didn’t think so! Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in director Metin Hüseyin‘s 2000 It Was an Accident as Nicky Burkett, who comes out of jail after four years and returns to Walthamstow, London, to find […]