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Posts Tagged "based on short story"
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Laughing Anne ** (1953, Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner) – Classic Movie Review 10,361
Margaret Lockwood stars as the 1880s Parisian wicked lady nightclub singing star Laughing Anne. Joseph Conrad’s triangle tug-of-love short story tale of amour and death in Java, Between the Tides, gets an overblown, stilted dramatic […]
Return to Paradise ** (1953, Gary Cooper, Barry Jones, Roberta Haynes) – Classic Movie Review 7686
Director Mark Robson’s 1953 Return to Paradise stars Gary Cooper as Mr Morgan, a drifter sailor who lives in romantic bliss on the remote Pacific island of Matareva with island native Maeva (Roberta Haynes) in […]
Border [Gräns] **** (2018, Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom) – Movie Review
There’s a very strange-looking woman at the Border, a customs officer who seems able to sniff out the guilty as they come through customs. She really can sniff out trouble, smelling out guilt, and shame and sin […]
Nothing But the Best **** (1964, Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin) – Classic Movie Review 5945
Director Clive Donner’s amusing and deliciously cynical 1964 satirical dark comedy runs along the lines of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, though it is based on the short story The Best of […]
The Prince Who Was a Thief *** (1951, Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Peggie Castle, Donald Randolph, Jeff Corey, Betty Garde, Marvin Miller) – Classic Movie Review 4542
Director Rudolph Maté’s bright, lively and colourful 1951 swashbuckler movie The Prince Who Was a Thief is pure Hollywood escapist romantic adventure hokum, set against a backdrop of 13th-century Tangiers. The young Tony Curtis (already […]
Arrival **** (2016, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review
Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner star as linguists who are recruited by the US military, led by Forest Whitaker’s bossy Colonel Weber, to assist in translating communications with aliens who have touched down in mysterious spacecraft at […]
The Green Room [La chambre verte] **** (1978, François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté) – Classic Movie Review 2297
Director François Truffaut casts himself as Julien Davenne, a provincial journalist in a little French town at the end of the 1920s. He’s an obituary writer obsessively looking back on the death of his wife Julie […]