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The House That Screamed [La Residencia] *** (1969, Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 12,271

Writer-director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s 1969 cult Spanish horror film The House That Screamed [La Residencia] stars Lilli Palmer as Señora Fourneau, the strict disciplinarian headmistress of a 19th-century French girls’ boarding school, where the students […]

Aug, 05

The Power of One *** (1992, Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 12,009

Director John G Avildsen’s 1992 drama film The Power of One is based on the novel by Bryce Courtenay, and stars Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman and John Gielgud. The Power of One is […]

Mar, 15

A Feast at Midnight ** (1994, Freddie Findlay, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 10,622

Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) […]

Dec, 03

The Trouble with Angels ** (1966, Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, June Harding, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes) – Classic Movie Review 9,172

The 1966 comedy film The Trouble with Angels stars Hayley Mills and June Harding as naughty schoolgirls running wild in a Pennsylvanian Catholic convent boarding school, where canny Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) tames and civilises […]

Dec, 19

The Happiest Millionaire *** (1967, Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, John Davidson, Gladys Cooper, Lesley Ann Warren, Geraldine Page, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 8532

Director Norman Tokar’s 1967 The Happiest Millionaire is the last live-action film supervised personally as producer by Walt Disney (uncredited), though Bill Anderson is credited producer. It is a large-scale musical, with a modern-day Romeo […]

Jun, 01

Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] **** (1966, Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 7497

Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]

Aug, 25

Toy Soldiers *** (1991, Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, R Lee Ermey, Mason Adams, Denholm Elliott, Louis Gossett Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6735

Director Daniel Petrie Jr’s engaging 1991 movie stars the 20-year-old cheeky-faced cherub Sean Astin as Billy Tepper, whose title gang of naughty but nice schoolboys do good when Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff)’s evil Colombian terrorists take […]

Feb, 25

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