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London Suite [Neil Simon’s London Suite] * (1996, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 8021

A very good cast is dreadfully wasted in director Jay Sandrich’s naff, turgid and woeful 1996 comedy London Suite, an adaptation of Neil Simon’s follow-up to his hilarious plays and films California Suite and Plaza […]

Jan, 16

Hostile Witness ** (1968, Ray Milland, Sylvia Syms, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 7923

Ray Milland directs the 1968 film of the British courtroom drama play by Jack Roffey which he had earlier appeared in successfully on Broadway, with Roffey writing his own screenplay. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England. Milland also […]

Dec, 19

The Bespoke Overcoat ***** (1955, David Kossoff, Alfie Bass, Alf Dean, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 7863

The 1955 British Oscar-winning drama The Bespoke Overcoat is an astonishingly fine, beautiful short film from producer-director Jack Clayton, based on a Nikolai Gogol tale called The Cloak, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff perfectly […]

Dec, 01

A Midsummer Night’s Dream *** (1985, Lindsay Kemp, Manuela Vargas, Jack Birkett, François Testory, David Meyer, Neil Caplan, Michael Matou, David Haughton) – Classic Movie Review 7838

Lindsay Kemp’s Company brings its London stage production of the William Shakespeare play to the screen with colourful success in director Celestino Coronada’s 1985 Spanish-UK TV movie A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As Puck (Lindsay Kemp) […]

Nov, 27

Song of Norway ** (1970, Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad, Christina Schollin) – Classic Movie Review 7748

The 1944 Broadway hit stage show by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran, Song of Norway, is brought to the screen by producer-director Andrew L Stone in 1970 with 70 mm 6-Track Stereo, Panavision 70, De Luxe colour and […]

Nov, 03

Female on the Beach *** (1955, Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway, Natalie Schafer, Charles Drake) – Classic Movie Review 7734

‘Never has a woman loved so deeply or so dangerously!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s 1955 film noir crime thriller Female on the Beach provides an archetypal role for Joan Crawford – as Lynn Markham, the rich […]

Nov, 01

Tight Spot **** (1955, Ginger Rogers, Edward G Robinson, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene) – Classic Movie Review 7720

Director Phil Karlson’s 1955 crime thriller Tight Spot stars Ginger Rogers, Edward G Robinson and Brian Keith, and is a vintage film noir treat. It is based on Leonard Kantor’s play Dead Pigeon, which only […]

Oct, 29

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