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Old Mother Riley *** (1937, Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest) – Classic Movie Review 10,780

The 1937 British comedy film Old Mother Riley is the first of the 15-movie Old Mother Riley comedy series, with Arthur Lucan funny in drag as the loud elderly Irish washerwoman and Lucan’s real-wife Kitty McShane […]

Jan, 12

The Real McCoy * (1993, Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 10,743

Director Russell Mulcahy’s 1993 film The Real McCoy stars Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy, an expert cat-burgling ex-con trying to go straight, who gets out of prison but is dragged back into a life of […]

Jan, 03

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen ** (1942, William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, John Litel, Lilian Bond, James Burke) – Classic Movie Review 10,506

The 1942 American mystery crime thriller A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen stars William Gargan as Ellery Queen in his second film in the series. Director James P Hogan’s 1942 American mystery crime thriller A […]

Nov, 06

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring ** (1941, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Mona Barrie, Paul Hurst, James Burke, George Zucco, Blanche Yurka) – Classic Movie Review 10,504

Director James P Hogan’s 1941 Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring stars Ralph Bellamy for the fourth and final time as ace amateur sleuth Ellery Queen, with Margaret Lindsay and Charley Grapewin also returning as […]

Nov, 06

The Mystery of Edwin Drood * (1993, Robert Powell, Nanette Newman, Gemma Craven, Jonathan Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,408

Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]

Oct, 13

Isadora **** (1966, Vivian Pickles, Peter Bowles, Alexei Jawdokimov, Murray Melvin) – Classic Movie Review 10,395

Isadora (1966) is the vivacious, deservedly much admired Ken Russell TV movie version of the life of the 1920s American dancer Isadora Duncan, with a most compelling, attractive and genial lead performance by Vivian Pickles […]

Oct, 09

Mrs Delafield Wants to Marry **½ (1986, Katharine Hepburn, Harold Gould, Bibi Besch) – Classic Movie Review 10,390

Venerable senior citizen Katharine Hepburn stars as Margaret Delafield, a wealthy WASP widow who astounds her family by announcing that she has fallen in love with her old Jewish doctor Dr Marvin Elias (Harold Gould), […]

Oct, 07

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