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The L-Shaped Room **** (1962, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Bernard Lee, Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Emlyn Williams, Nanette Newman, Patricia Phoenix, Avis Bunnage) – Classic Movie Review 2427
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1962 film is a fragrant slice of Sixties London kitchen-sink life. It is one of the highspots of the brief flowering of British Sixties New Wave cinema. But it has international French star […]
The Slipper and the Rose **** (1976, Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Margaret Lockwood, Annette Crosbie, Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, Edith Evans, Christopher Gable) – Classic Movie Review 2426
Director Bryan Forbes’s enchanting 1976 British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella with songs and dancing is a real charmer. For that, much thanks to Gemma Craven’s captivating Cinders and Richard Chamberlain’s […]
Seance on a Wet Afternoon **** (1964, Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Nanette Newman, Patrick Magee, Margaret Lacey) – Classic Movie Review 2425
Writer-director-co-producer Bryan Forbes directed this extraordinary, spine-tingling psychological thriller about a near insane medium. Seance on a Wet Afternoon is an exciting work of a gifted British film-maker in his creative prime in 1964. Kim […]
Whistle Down the Wind ***** (1961, Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird) – Classic Movie Review 2424
Hayley Mills leads a group of three kids who find a fugitive from justice (Alan Bates) in Whistle Down the Wind. Bryan Forbes’s beautifully crafted first film as director is full of memorable performances and […]
King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422
George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]
Deadfall *** (1968, Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman) – Classic Movie Review 2421
Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s plush and alluring British 1968 French Riviera crime caper with dark psychological and sexual overtones is brought to life by capable character studies from Michael Caine, Eric Portman and Nanette Newman. The […]
The Angry Silence **** (1960, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke) – Classic Movie Review 2111
Director Guy Green’s 1960 drama The Angry Silence is a refreshingly bracing, grown-up and engrossing thought piece that finds the 1960 British cinema in a surprisingly serious frame of mind in a story that tackles […]