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Toys in the Attic *** (1963, Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Yvette Mimieux, Gene Tierney) – Classic Movie Review 6,907

‘ADULTS ONLY!’ The once controversial 1963 film ‘Toys in the Attic plays with fire’, with a riveting script and formidable star performances by Geraldine Page and Wendy Hiller and Dean Martin. The riveting text by […]

Apr, 09

Comanche Territory ** (1950, Maureen O’Hara, Macdonald Carey, Will Geer, Charles Drake, James Best) – Classic Movie Review 6435

‘The Wild, Wanton Fury of 1,000 Howling Savages!’ Maureen O’Hara stars in George Sherman’s interestingly unconventional 1950 Western with a conventional story by Lewis Meltzer about a battle over land ownership. The US government has […]

Dec, 20

Spring and Port Wine **** (1970, James Mason, Diana Coupland, Susan George, Rodney Bewes, Hannah Gordon, Adrienne Posta, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6,322

The 1970 British kitchen sink drama film Spring and Port Wine is based on a hit stage play by Bill Naughton, and provides a grand role for James Mason as a North West England father who attempts to assert his […]

Nov, 27

Love Streams **** (1984, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 5753

John Cassavetes’s 1984 film Love Streams is his final solo feature and tells the agonising story of a troubled middle-aged brother (Cassavetes) and sister (Gena Rowlands), abandoned by their loved ones. Sarah Lawson (played by […]

Jul, 13

Wuthering Heights *** (1970, Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5558

American horror company American International Pictures (AIP) gets in on the British heritage cinema cash cow and goes all posh with director Robert Fuest’s ‘modern’ 1971 version of the Emily Brontë classic novel that already […]

Jun, 07

Through a Glass Darkly [Såsom I En Spegel] **** (1961, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård) – Classic Movie Review 4838

Writer/ director Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 typically angst-torn Swedish saga of four unhappy people on a far-off island won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was Sweden’s second consecutive win after Bergman’s The Virgin Spring (1960). […]

Jan, 03

Les Enfants Terribles **** (1950, Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima) – Classic Movie Review 3801

French film noir movie-maker Jean-Pierre Melville is an unexpected choice as writer-director for this surrealist and poetic 1950 film version of Jean Cocteau’s 1929 novel about the extremely odd relationship of a teenage brother and […]

Jun, 05

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