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Posts Tagged "Catholic priest"
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Full Confession *** (1939, Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Joseph Calleia, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 8901
Co-writer/ director John Farrow’s 1939 crime drama Full Confession stars Victor McLaglen as Pat McGinnis, who agonises as another man, Michael O’Keefe (Barry Fitzgerald), is sentenced on circumstantial evidence to die in the electric chair […]
The Cardinal *** (1963, Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider) – Classic Movie Review 8601
Director Otto Preminger’s colourfully glossy saga of the young Boston priest called Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon), who battles racists at home and Nazis abroad, and then becomes a cardinal, is a big and bumpy experience, […]
The Saga of Gosta Berling [Gösta Berling’s Saga] **** (1924, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson) – Classic Movie Review 5324
In this extremely intriguing curio 1924 Swedish silent movie epic, Greta Garbo stars as Elizabeth Dohna in her first leading part in a feature-length film, co-starring Lars Hanson, and directed by her mentor, the celebrated […]
The Singer Not the Song ** (1960, Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylène Demongeot) – Classic Movie Review 5171
Crazy miscasting bedevils director Roy Ward Baker’s magnetically ridiculous British 1960 Freudian romantic adventure based on Audrey Erskine-Lindop’s novel. Alas, it has over-reaching ambitions and its serious nature and high-minded intentions only serve to make […]
To the Wonder ***½ (2012, Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem) – Classic Movie Review 3850
Roger Ebert’s final film review is of his three and a half star romantic drama from director Terrence Malick and starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, and Javier Bardem. It is a heady and haunting mystic-minded meditation […]
The Borderlands [Final Prayer] *** (2013, Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill, Aidan McArdle, Patrick Godfrey) – Movie Review
First-time writer-director Elliot Goldner’s found-footage horror movie focuses on two Catholic priests and an unbelieving techie investigating reports of paranormal activity at a remote country church in the British West Country. Though admittedly I didn’t […]
Priest **** (1994, Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle) – Classic Movie Review 330
Director Antonia Bird’s outstanding 1994 drama about a young, idealistic priest, Father Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache), who is struggling between his Catholic calling and his homosexuality, is extremely moving, persuasive and thought provoking. Arriving in […]