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Three Steps North ** (1951, Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi, William C Tubbs, Dino Galvani) – Classic Movie Review 11,836

Producer-director W Lee Wilder’s 1951 Italian–American film noir crime thriller Three Steps North stars Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi, William C Tubbs and Dino Galvani. Lloyd Bridges stars as World War Two GI Frank Keeler, dishonorably […]

Jan, 10

The Ship That Died of Shame [PT Raiders] *** (1955, Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8461

When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]

May, 12

Shoeshine [Sciuscià] ***** (1946, Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele) – Classic Movie Review 8450

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]

May, 09

Saigon *** (1948, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Morris Carnovsky) – Classic Movie Review 7123

The fairly imaginative 1948 crime action adventure film Saigon again pairs the sizzling hit team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, whose star chemistry is the making of the movie. Director Leslie Fenton’s only fairly […]

Jun, 05

A Private Function **** (1984, Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Denholm Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 4066

Director Malcolm Mowbray’s delightful 1984 comedy film realises Alan Bennett’s highly amusing pig tale about a late-1940s Northern England doctor’s family who raise an illegal porker and fatten it up for a royal wedding banquet. […]

Jul, 22

Faraway, So Close! [In Weiter Ferne, so Nah!] **** (1993, Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski) – Classic Movie Review 2323

In the fascinating and undervalued 1993 sequel to his 1987 international arthouse success Wings of Desire, co-writer-director Wim Wenders revisits a totally changed Berlin as he reunites with his stars Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, who […]

Mar, 28

The Third Man ***** (1949, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 170

‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]

Aug, 17

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