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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
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Lady Sings the Blues **** (1972, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor) – Classic Movie Review 9,634
Director Sidney J Furie’s 1972 musical drama film Lady Sings the Blues is Diana Ross’s finest hour in the movies, acting her socks off as the great but tragic blues singer Billie Holiday. The film’s […]
W C Fields and Me ** (1976, Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley) – Classic Movie Review 9451
Director Arthur Hiller’s 1976 Tinseltown biopic W C Fields and Me stars Rod Steiger, who impersonates the great comedian, drinker and baby-hater in an amusing Seventies showbiz saga based loosely on the memoirs of his […]
The Glenn Miller Story **** (1954, James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, Frances Langford, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, George Tobias, Barton MacLane, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7876
Director Anthony Mann’s 1954 musical biopic The Glenn Miller Story stars James Stewart, who is ideal casting both as actor and as a Glenn Miller lookalike. Stewart conducts himself on screen with his customary easy-going charm and […]
Colette ** (2018, Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Eleanor Tomlinson, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pugh) – Movie Review
Keira Knightley stars in director Wash Westmoreland’s Colette (2018) as French rural country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, who marries the older Willy (Dominic West). They move from the countryside to Paris and he gets her to […]
Sister Kenny *** (1946, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 7262
A well cast Rosalind Russell was Oscar nominated for her dedicated acting as Sister Elizabeth Kenny in director Dudley Nichols’s stirring 1946 biopic based on Mary Kenny’s own story And They Shall Walk (written with Martha […]
The Happy Prince **** (2018, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Tom Wilkinson) – Movie Review
In his tour-de-force labour of love The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett tells the story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a pitiful wreck of a broken man, more sinned against than […]
Freud **** (1962, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks) – Classic Movie Review 7186
A bearded, haunted looking Montgomery Clift’s intelligent performance as the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the clear and riveting direction by John Huston, and Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt’s revealing screenplay all combine […]