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The Last Outpost *** (1935, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael) – Classic Movie Review 11,276

Directors Charles Barton and Louis J Gasnier’s 1935 Paramount Pictures black and white romantic action adventure film The Last Outpost stars Cary Grant, Claude Rains and Gertrude Michael. This forgotten film is one of Grant’s […]

Jun, 06

Conduct Unbecoming ** (1975, Michael York, Stacy Keach, Trevor Howard, Christopher Plummer, Richard Attenborough, Susannah York, James Faulkner, Helen Cherry) – Classic Movie Review 10,969

Director Michael Anderson’s 1975 British courtroom drama Conduct Unbecoming stars Michael York, Stacy Keach, Trevor Howard, Christopher Plummer, Richard Attenborough, Susannah York, James Faulkner, James Donald, Michael Culver and Helen Cherry. A British officer, Second […]

Feb, 27

Listen to Britain **** (1942, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Myra Hess) – Classic Movie Review 9140

The 1942 essay film Listen to Britain is a rousing classic wartime documentary short from ace British documentarian Humphrey Jennings, embodying the recorded sounds of vignettes in the nation’s life, as civilians struggle with surviving […]

Dec, 09

You Must Be Joking! *** (1965, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde White, James Robertson Justice, Michael Callan, Gabriella Licudi, Denholm Elliott, Lee Montague, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 7769

Director Michael Winner in his happy early Sixties comedy days turns in a pleasantly amusing Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat-style satirical comedy about life in the British army in the era of swinging England. The good-humoured, traditional […]

Nov, 10

War Requiem **** (1989, Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes) – Classic Movie Review 6483

Writer-director Derek Jarman’s 1989 film is a magnificent visual interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s 1962 ‘War Requiem’ and evocation of the life and death in the trenches of the World War One poet Wilfred Owen. There […]

Dec, 28

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ***** (1943, Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook) – Classic Movie Review 599

Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s unique, warm-hearted 1943 epic drama The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a master-crafted jewel in the crown of British cinema as one of the nation’s best ever […]

Dec, 30

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