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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
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One, Two, Three **** (1961, James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Howard St John) – Classic Movie Review 3666
At 61, James Cagney is supremely energetic and wickedly funny in his last film before he retired for 20 years till his surprise comeback in Ragtime (1981). In Billy Wilder’s 1961 movie classic Cold War […]
Five Graves to Cairo **** (1943, Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 2663
Director Billy Wilder’s dynamic 1943 World War Two wartime suspense thriller is set in June 1942 in the North African desert where a small, isolated Saharan hotel inn named the Empress of Britain is owned by […]
The Major and the Minor **** (1942, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 2662
The Viennese immigrant Billy Wilder finally fulfils his ambition to direct his first American movie in 1942 in this highly enjoyable, bubbly vintage comedy, based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. Ginger Rogers gives […]
Fedora **** (1978, William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegarde Knef, José Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2661
Director Billy Wilder’s horribly undervalued final film from 1978 is fittingly a report on the movie business’s excesses and an attack on Hollywood’s youth-oriented culture, told in flashback. Marthe Keller stars as a dotty, reclusive old […]
Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]
Stalag 17 ***** (1953, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 2531
Director Billy Wilder delivers a typically darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s Broadway stage play about American airmen’s life in a POW camp in Germany in 1944 towards the end of World […]
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes **** (1970, Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee, Colin Blakely, Irene Handl, Clive Revill, Geneviève Page) – Classic Movie Review 2487
Director Billy Wilder is on great form in his revisionist 1970 British-made tale of the private life of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sleuth, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely […]