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Spanish Fly (1976, Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska, Frank Thornton, Sue Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 9,900

The 1976 British sex comedy film Spanish Fly is lame, unfunny and vulgar, with a deft, expert cast of familiar farceurs (Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas) stranded in silly Spanish slapstick.  Director Bob Kellett’s 1976 film Spanish […]

Jun, 12

Blood Wedding **** (1981, Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez) – Classic Movie Review 9836

A thrilling experience, the 1981 Spanish film Blood Wedding [Bodas de Sangre] is one of the great dance movies. Director Carlos Saura watches with his cameras as Antonio Gades rehearses his flamenco version of the […]

May, 28

Dear Mr Prohack *** (1949, Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Dirk Bogarde Sheila Sim, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 9802

Director Thornton Freeland’s 1949 British comedy Dear Mr Prohack features Cecil Parker recreating his stage role as capable, frugal government treasury official Mr Arthur Prohack, who goes berserk and becomes a spendthrift when he comes […]

May, 21

The Plough and the Stars ** (Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 9769

The 1936 film The Plough and the Stars is John Ford’s failed labour-of-love version of the Sean O’Casey play about the 1916 Irish rebellion, centring on Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyck)’s fight to stop her rebel […]

May, 15

Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] *** (1952, Leslie Dwyer, Lisa Daniely, Brian Worth, Sandra Dorne, Ronald Adam, Joan Hickson, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 9,735

The 1952 British drama film Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] is a decently crafted, enjoyable film of Stanley Houghton’s famed 1912 play about an independently minded English north country mill girl (Lisa Daniely) enjoying a holiday […]

May, 09

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ** (1990, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 9727

Writer Tom Stoppard turns director to supervise the 1990 film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the movie of his wordy (or dialogue driven) play about two of the minor characters from Hamlet – courtiers who […]

May, 07

Decadence ** (1994, Joan Collins, Steven Berkoff, Christopher Biggins, Michael Winner, Marc Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 9649

The 1994 comedy drama Decadence is, as the poster says, ‘degenerate and disgusting’, but alas perhaps it is not also ‘deliciously funny’ as advertised, though it does have a certain oddball fascination, and its two […]

Apr, 18

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