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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
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Posts Tagged "best picture"
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Platoon ***** (1986, Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 2074
Writer-director Oliver Stone’s 1986 Oscar-winner for Best Picture and Best Director focuses on the trials and tribulations of American infantrymen in 60s Vietnam and boasts the solid, traditional movie-making virtues of an engrossing story, muscular performances and […]
Rain Man ***** (1988, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino) – Classic Movie Review 2064
Director Barry Levinson’s four Oscar-winning 1988 drama is a triumph, winning some of the most important of the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also won the […]
Oliver! ***** (1968, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1809
Consider yourself well in! Director Carol Reed was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens, followed […]
Gandhi ***** (1982, Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Mills, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson) – Classic Movie Review 1488
Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s stirring 1982 film Gandhi was a triumph, scooping eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Attenborough and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley’s unforgettable performance as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948). John […]
The Lost Weekend ***** (1945, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry) – Classic Movie Review 1030
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s coruscating, much-admired four-Oscar-winning 1945 drama proved Ray Milland’s greatest triumph in the movies and one of director Wilder’s. It won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Milland […]
Wings ***** (1927, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, Jobyna Ralston, Gary Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 501
The first ever Best Picture Oscar winner (and only silent film to win) is still immensely stirring for its thrilling, atmospheric flying scenes, breathtaking dogfights and realistic sequences of trench warfare, filmed for real without […]
On the Waterfront ***** (1954, Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 351
‘You don’t understand. I could’ve had class. I could’ve been a contender. I could’ve been somebody instead of a bum, which I am.’ – Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando). In a truly great performance, the 30-year-old Marlon […]