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Under Milk Wood *** (1972, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, Glynis Johns, Vivien Merchant, Siân Phillips, Victor Spinetti) – Classic Movie Review 6548

Dylan Thomas’s delightful classic radio poem play a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called Llareggub gets the Hollywood star treatment. And writer-director Andrew Sinclair’s 1972 Welsh village comedy comes as […]

Jan, 11

Night Gallery (The Cemetery/Eyes/The Escape Route) **** (1969, Joan Crawford, Roddy McDowall, Tom Bosley, Barry Sullivan, Ossie Davis, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 6010

Writer-creator Rod Serling introduces three of his own Twilight Zone-style stories, the pilot TV movie for the 50-episode anthology concept hit series Night Gallery (1969-73) showing off pictures that reflect mankind’s base instincts in stories […]

Sep, 10

Cauldron of Blood [El coleccionista de cadáveres] [Blind Man’s Buff] * (1971, Boris Karloff, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Viveca Lindfors) – Classic Movie Review 5615

‘Tops In Total Horror!’ – even the advertising line sounds like a translation! Boris Karloff plays a blind sculptor, Charles Badulescu, who uses real people’s skeletons as the basis for his unorthodox artworks in this […]

Jun, 15

Magnificent Obsession **** (1954, Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Barbara Rush) – Classic Movie Review 3435

Douglas Sirk’s magnificently melodramatic 1954 romantic film Magnificent Obsession finds the perfect stars in Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson and Agnes Moorehead. Cult director Douglas Sirk’s magnificently melodramatic 1954 American romantic drama film Magnificent Obsession finds […]

Mar, 01

The Story of Esther Costello *** (1957, Joan Crawford, Heather Sears, Rossano Brazzi, Ron Randell, Lee Patterson, Fay Compton, John Loder, Denis O’Dea, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 3252

Director David Miller’s awkward but very sincere, well-acted and watchable 1957 British drama stars Joan Crawford as rich society lady Margaret Landi, who finds herself coming to the aid of 18-year-old girl Esther Costello (Heather Sears, […]

Jan, 09

At First Sight *** (1998, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) – Classic Movie Review 1619

Producer-director Irwin Winkler’s sweetly sensitive 1998 drama stars Mira Sorvino as city woman Amy Benic, a Manhattan architect who meets and falls for a proud, self-sufficient blind bloke called Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). A massage therapist at a […]

Sep, 01

City Lights ***** (1931, Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Hank Mann, Allan Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 1043

Writer-director Charles Chaplin’s still-renowned, often brilliant 1931 comedy classic is a silent movie, even though he made it three years after the talkies had come in. It is over-burdened with sentimentality from another age but […]

Apr, 02

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