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Posts Tagged "Carol Reed"
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The Stars Look Down **** (1940, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 2205
Director Carol Reed’s admirable 1940 movie version of A J Cronin’s novel is meticulously crafted, crisply scripted and expertly performed by a fine cast. It stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick, a […]
Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] ***½ (1941, Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard) – Classic Movie Review 1836
Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]
The Fallen Idol ***** (1948, Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel) – Classic Movie Review 1835
Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]
Oliver! ***** (1968, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1809
Consider yourself well in! Director Carol Reed was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens, followed […]
Our Man in Havana **** (1959, Alec Guinness, Noël Coward, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 1808
Director Carol Reed’s 1959 thriller finds the ideal fit in Alec Guinness, who is perfectly cast as Jim Wormold, the meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, in this delightful film of one of Graham Greene’s […]
Odd Man Out ***** (1946, James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 1807
Director Carol Reed’s moody, impeccably crafted 1946 British thriller showcases one of James Mason’s most renowned performances as Johnny McQueen, an IRA Irish nationalist leader gunman who commits a failed mill robbery in Belfast, kills […]
The Way Ahead **** (1944, David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 1806
Director Carol Reed’s 1944 World War Two morale-boosting drama The Way Ahead is adapted from Eric Ambler’s story in an excellent, rousing screenplay by himself and future two-time Oscar-winning actor Peter Ustinov (Spartacus, Topkapi). Reed […]