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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
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- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Live by Night ** (2016, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review
Ben Affleck and Chris Messina star as Joe Coughlin and Dion Bartolo, a couple of Boston gangsters who, to get themselves out of trouble, do a deal with Italian mobster Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) and set […]
Collateral Beauty * (2016, Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Naomie Harris, Ann Dowd, Jacob Latimore) – Movie Review
‘Tis the season of goodwill still, I know, but Collateral Beauty stretches it to breaking point. I’m afraid that it is one of 2016’s least pleasurable viewing experiences. Will Smith, replacing a fortunate Hugh Jackman, stars […]
M Butterfly ** (1993, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon) – Classic Movie Review 4366
Whatever has gone wrong with this stage to film transfer of the hit Broadway and London West End play by David Henry Hwang about a French diplomat serving in Beijing in 1964, who falls for Chinese opera […]
Bad Company **** (1972, Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage, Jerry Houser, Geoffrey Lewis, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 4160
The 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey in the 1972 Western film Bad Company. The young, just 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a particularly magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey, an […]
The Army of Shadows [L’Armée des Ombres] ***** (1969, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 3799
Writer-producer-director Jean-Pierre Melville pays tribute to the French Resistance he worked for in World War Two with this extremely engrossing, powerful and challenging 1969 epic account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France, set in 1942. Lino […]
The Cry of the Owl *** (2009, Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner) – Classic Movie Review 3550
Director Jamie Thraves also writes the screenplay of this intriguing 2009 thriller, adapting the novel by Patricia Highsmith that had already provided a most satisfying movie version in 1987 from masterly Claude Chabrol, The Cry of the […]
The Panic in Needle Park **** (1971, Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Kiel Martin, Raul Julia, Gil Rogers, Joe Santos, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 3480
Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1971 searing downer of movie about the heroin addicts who frequent ‘Needle Park’ stars the up-coming Al Pacino in his second film, just before he hit it big with The Godfather. A downbeat but […]