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Hotel Paradiso ** (1966, Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount) – Classic Movie Review 8219

Alec Guinness stars in director Peter Glenville’s 1966 British comedy Hotel Paradiso as mild Benedict Boniface, who wants to have a fling with his lovely neighbour Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida). She is being neglected by […]

Mar, 09

Quiet Wedding **** (1941, Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, Muriel Pavlow, Peggy Ashcroft, Athene Seyler, A E Matthews) – Classic Movie Review 8126

Margaret Lockwood and Derek Farr star in the extremely jolly 1941 British romantic comedy film Quiet Wedding as a young couple whose wedding plans are comically undermined by the constant interruptions of their relatives. Muriel […]

Feb, 13

Home at Seven [Murder on Monday] *** (1952, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Meriel Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 8121

Director Ralph Richardson’s 1952 Home at Seven [retitled Murder on Monday in the US] is a fairly compelling amnesia mystery with a theft and a murder occurring during the 24 hours a bank clerk, David […]

Feb, 12

Twice Round the Daffodils *** (1962, Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 8118

Juliet Mills stars as a nice nurse called Catty, who tends randy, troublesome patients, in director Gerald Thomas’s minor, very British 1962 farce Twice Round the Daffodils, set in a men’s tuberculosis clinic, where, as […]

Feb, 11

The Midshipmaid [Midshipmaid Gob] ** (1932, Jessie Matthews, A W Baskcomb, Basil Sydney, Frederick Kerr, Nigel Bruce, Claud Allister, John Mills, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 8103

Jessie Matthews stars in her second major film role (following Out of the Blue in 1931), the first of two films she made directed by Albert de Courville, followed by There Goes the Bride (1932). Director Albert de Courville’s […]

Feb, 07

King’s Rhapsody ** (1955, Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 8039

Ivor Novello’s last operetta King’s Rhapsody (1950) concerns an exiled Ruritarian king, Richard of Laurentia (a sadly on-the-skids Errol Flynn), forsaking true love with commoner Marta Karillos (Anna Neagle, too old for this at the […]

Jan, 20

The Lady with a Lamp *** (1951, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young) – Classic Movie Review 8038

The romantic team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding returns in director Herbert Wilcox’s engrossing 1951 historical drama The Lady with a Lamp, an episodic and stately biography of the great English pioneer lady of nursing. Neagle […]

Jan, 20

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