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- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
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The Tuttles of Tahiti *** (1942, Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen, Florence Bates, Gene Reynolds, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 6812
Director Charles Vidor’s pleasant, entertaining 1942 old-style South Seas island saga The Tuttles of Tahiti is based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty, with […]
Advise & Consent ***** (1962, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Lew Ayres, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Ford, Peter Lawford, Edward Andrews, Burgess Meredith, Gene Tierney, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 3392
Producer-director Otto Preminger’s superb 1962 political thriller boasts a wonderful array of old Sixties star character actors doing their unique and eccentric things. Despite all the valiant efforts of Henry Fonda as Robert Leffingwell, Walter Pidgeon […]
Les Misérables ***** (1935, Charles Laughton, Fredric March, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 3148
Charles Laughton gives an outstanding, surprisingly controlled performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in director Richard Boleslawski’s fine, meticulously compressed 1935 screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Fredric March is also admirable […]
Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]
The Big Clock **** (1948, Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 2575
Charles Laughton grabs the opportunity to shine in director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian thriller The Big Clock. In director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian black-and-white film noir thriller The Big Clock, Charles Laughton grabs the […]
The Private Life of Henry VIII ***** (1933, Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 2495
Producer-director Alexander Korda’s 1933 triumph The Private Life of Henry VIII was the first British movie to enjoy worldwide success. It was an even sweeter triumph because at the time period films were considered to […]
Mutiny on the Bounty ***** (1935, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Movita Castaneda) – Classic Movie Review 2350
‘This is mutiny, Mr Christian. Clear the decks of this rabble!’ MGM’s 1935 classic sea-faring adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty triumphed by winning the Oscar for Best Film and was a huge box office […]