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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
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The Farmer Takes a Wife *** (1935, Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 10,667
Director Victor Fleming’s sweet 1935 1820s-set romance The Farmer Takes a Wife stars Henry Fonda, who impresses in his film début (already 30) as the nice farmer Dan Harrow, who courts bargee’s cute housekeeper Molly […]
Anchor and Hope [Ancora si speranta] **** (2017, Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin, David Verdaguer, Geraldine Chaplin, Charlotte Atkinson, Trevor White) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s quirky comedy of personal relationships Anchor and Hope (2017) is really quite special. It is richly enjoyable, very funny, touching and thoughtful, with four lovely performances in memorable characters, as well as […]
The Widow Couderc [La veuve Couderc] **** (1971, Alain Delon, Simone Signoret, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier, Monique Chaumette) – Classic Movie Review 5551
Alain Delon and Simone Signoret are outstanding in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre‘s excellent 1971 French drama film adaptation of the 1942 Georges Simenon novel The Widow Couderc [La veuve Couderc]. As a drama, it is more […]
Hôtel du Nord ***** (1938, Annabella, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Arletty) – Classic Movie Review 5271
Director Marcel Carné’s fine, poetic 1938 film study of life’s flotsam and jetsam in a tatty Paris hotel near the canal Saint-Martin is one of his finest films, with Arletty as Raymonde, a spirited prostitute […]
Painted Boats [The Girl on the Canal] *** (1945, Jenny Laird, Bill Blewitt, Robert Griffith, May Hallatt, Madoline Thomas, Grace Arnold, Harry Fowler, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 4692
Director Charles Crichton’s warm and appealing 1945 Ealing Studios wartime drama tells the story of the adventures of two families – the Smiths and the Stoners – working on the colourfully painted canal boats on the […]
La Machine **** (1977, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Monique Mélinand) – Classic Movie Review 3633
French film-maker and author Paul Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, aged 92. He notably directed La Machine (1977), a passionate attack on capital punishment, starring Jean-Christophe Bouvet. Jean-Christophe Bouvet has his first […]
Samba *** (2014, Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Hélène Vincent) – Movie Review
Omar Sy and Charlotte Gainsbourg star as Senegal immigrant Samba and burnt-out immigration executive Alice in this serious-minded French romantic comedy drama. It’s a fresh, most enjoyable movie, with three excellent star performances, and it’s good to see Gainsbourg […]