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Gertrud **** (1964, Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Baard Owe, Ebbe Rode) – Classic Movie Review 10,813

Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]

Jan, 21

Hennessy *** (1975, Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Eric Porter, Peter Egan) – Classic Movie Review 10,731

Director Don Sharp’s controversial 1975 British topical action thriller Hennessy stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Eric Porter and Peter Egan. British soldiers kill Irish explosives man Niall Hennessy (Steiger)’s wife and […]

Dec, 31

Hedda *** (1975, Glenda Jackson, Timothy West, Peter Eyre, Jennie Linden, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 10,730

Writer-director Trevor Nunn’s 1975 drama Hedda is a moderate, rather heavy-going, and uncinematic but beautifully acted film version of Jackson’s Royal Shakespeare Company stage performance as Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Nunn adapts it from the […]

Dec, 31

The Benny Goodman Story *** (1956, Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten) – Classic Movie Review 10,714

Steve Allen stars – quite impressively too – in writer-director Valentine Davies’s 1956 The Benny Goodman Story, a sentimental fictionalised musical around the career of Benny Goodman, the ace clarinet player from Chicago’s Jewish quarter, […]

Dec, 27

King David * (1985, Richard Gere, Edward Woodward, Alice Krige, Denis Quilley, Cherie Lunghi) – Classic Movie Review 10,680

Director Bruce Beresford’s 1985 King David is an unsuccessful attempt to retell the tale of David and Bathsheba, in a biblical film that did not do Richard Gere’s career any good at all. Gere and […]

Dec, 18

Anna Christie *** (1923, Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F Marion, Eugénie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 10,679

‘I Think I’ll be Killin’ you Now!’ Director John Griffith Wray’s 1923 Anna Christie is the greatly admired silent movie version of Nobel prize-winner Eugene O’Neill’s hard-going 1921 play about the romance of the seaside […]

Dec, 18

Peter Ibbetson *** (1935, Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino) – Classic Movie Review 10,575

Directed by Henry Hathaway’s 1935 fantasy romance drama Peter Ibbetson is based on the novel by George du Maurier and a stage version of 1917, the play by John Nathaniel Raphael, and stars Gary Cooper, […]

Nov, 21

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