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Father Brown [The Detective] **** (1954, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Sidney James, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 2,825

Alec Guinness is on delightful form as G K Chesterton’s priest and amateur detective, who is in Rome on the trail of master crook Flambeau (Peter Finch), in the 1954 British comedy mystery thriller film […]

Aug, 17

Beat the Devil **** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2,664

John Huston’s quirky and likable 1953 comedy action adventure classic film Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the go-between for a gang of uranium racketeers who want to exploit land in Africa. […]

Jul, 04

Last Holiday **** (1950, Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 2592

Director Henry Cass’s neat and nimble 1950 small-scale black comedy stars Alec Guinness, who is his usual expert and excellent self in a subtly sentimental, neatly scripted original story and screenplay by J B Priestley. […]

Jun, 13

The Raging Moon [Long Ago, Tomorrow] **** (1971, Nanette Newman, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 2429

Co-writer/director Bryan Forbes’s tearjerker 1971 film of Peter Marshall’s novel about a love affair between two handicapped people living in a church-run home for the disabled is moving and involving. It showcases a pair of […]

Apr, 26

The L-Shaped Room **** (1962, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Bernard Lee, Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Emlyn Williams, Nanette Newman, Patricia Phoenix, Avis Bunnage) – Classic Movie Review 2427

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1962 film is a fragrant slice of Sixties London kitchen-sink life. It is one of the highspots of the brief flowering of British Sixties New Wave cinema. But it has international French star […]

Apr, 26

Whistle Down the Wind ***** (1961, Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 2424

Hayley Mills leads a group of three kids who find a fugitive from justice (Alan Bates) in Whistle Down the Wind. Bryan Forbes’s beautifully crafted first film as director is full of memorable performances and […]

Apr, 24

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ***** (1965, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker, Peter Van Eyck) – Classic Movie Review 2,112

Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating 1965 British spy film The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is based on the 1963 novel by John le Carré, and stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner.  Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating, […]

Jan, 25

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