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Sally in Our Alley **** (1931, Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, Florence Desmond) – Classic Movie Review 8,431
The 1931 British romantic comedy drama film Sally in Our Alley is the first film of music hall star Gracie Fields, establishing her as a major UK film star. Director Maurice Elvey’s 1931 British romantic […]
The Black Tent ** (1956, Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden, André Morell, Anna Maria Sandri, Terence Sharkey) – Classic Movie Review 7322
Despite an intriguing premise, director Brian Desmond Hurst’s old-style 1956 British adventure yarn The Black Tent becomes a tedious, dated World War Two North Africa-set wartime action romance, remarkable mainly for André Morell’s energetic performance and […]
Tobruk *** (1967, Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 6447
Director Arthur Hiller’s exciting big-budget 1967 World War Two war drama stars George Peppard as German-Jewish Captain Kurt Bergman joining forces with freed Canadian POW Major Donald Craig (Rock Hudson) and British commander Colonel John […]
The Long and the Short and the Tall [Jungle Fighters] *** (1961, Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 5153
‘Raw emotions bared!’ Director Leslie Norman’s 1961 British film version of Willis Hall’s classic 1959 stage play The Long and the Short and the Tall stars Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, David McCallum and Ronald Fraser. […]
The Dawn Patrol **** (1938, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Morton Lowry, Melville Cooper, Donald Crisp, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 4747
Director Edmund Goulding’s sterling if penny-pinching 1938 remake of Howard Hawks’s 1930 movie The Dawn Patrol ingeniously includes some of the great dogfight footage and munitions depot explosion sequences that distinguished the first version, as […]
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence **** (1983, David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 3343
David Bowie gives a surprisingly persuasive performance as Major Jack ‘Strafer’ Celliers, a brave British prisoner-of-war in a Japanese camp, in 1942 in co-writer/ director Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, an unexpectedly […]
’71 **** (2014, Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid) – Movie Review
Hot young Brit star of the moment Jack O’Connell stars as Gary Hook, a young British soldier belonging to a new regiment under the command of Lieutenant Armitage (Sam Reid), who is sent to Belfast in 1971 to […]