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Quatermass 2 [Enemy from Space] *** (1957, Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 3165
American star Brian Donlevy is back to reprise his sombre performance as the troubled rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass in the second in Hammer Films’ trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC serials. This […]
An Inspector Calls **** (1954, Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo, Brian Worth, Eileen Moore, Bryan Forbes, Jane Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 2792
Alastair Sim stars in director Guy Hamilton’s 1954 British film An Inspector Calls based on the play by J B Priestley and written for the screen by Desmond Davis. As so often, an ideally cast […]
International Velvet *** (1978, Tatum O’Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman, Peter Barkworth, Dinsdale Landen, Sarah Bullen, Richard Warwick, Jeffrey Byron) – Classic Movie Review 2433
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s belated, though still welcome 1978 children’s movie is the sequel to National Velvet (1944) and based on the original 1935 novel by Enid Bagnold. It is, in the words of the title […]
The Naked Face *** (1984, Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer) – Classic Movie Review 2432
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1984 thriller, made for producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s Canon Films, was his 14th and final movie as director. It is an adaptation of Sidney Sheldon’s novel and stars Roger Moore […]
The Madwoman of Chaillot *** (1969, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 2431
Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]
Better Late Than Never *** (1982, David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 2430
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 13th film from 1982 provided his penultimate movie, as his directorial career came to an all too early end. The outstanding cast of David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith and Lionel Jeffries […]
The Raging Moon [Long Ago, Tomorrow] **** (1971, Nanette Newman, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 2429
Co-writer/director Bryan Forbes’s tearjerker 1971 film of Peter Marshall’s novel about a love affair between two handicapped people living in a church-run home for the disabled is moving and involving. It showcases a pair of […]