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Village of the Damned **** (1960, George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, Richard Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 3193

‘Beware the stare that will paralyse the will of the world.’ Co-writer/director Wolf Rilla’s 1960 British thriller Village of the Damned is securely based on John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos about a […]

Dec, 29

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ***** (1984, Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Philip Stone, Rosan Seth) – Classic Movie Review 3077

Master entertainer Steven Spielberg piles up the breakneck thrills and spills in this exhilarating 1984 first sequel (or rather prequel) to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The story by George Lucas throws in every […]

Nov, 22

L’Argent de Poche [Small Change] **** (1976, Georges Desmouceaux, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix) – Classic Movie Review 3018

Director François Truffaut’s 1976 hymn to the joys of youth is a series of charming anecdotes about a group of provincial French schoolboys, their teachers and parents in the town of Thiers in the summer of […]

Oct, 30

Wuthering Heights ***** (1939, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Hugh Williams, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 2959

Producer Samuel Goldwyn and director William Wyler’s 1939 vintage movie version of Emily Brontë’s perennially enchanting classic yarn is splendidly romantic, atmospheric and rousing. It stars the lustrous Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in the […]

Oct, 05

All This, and Heaven Too **** (1940, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O’Neil) – Classic Movie Review 2.741

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 period romantic drama film All This, and Heaven Too provides a gleaming, glorious showcase for Bette Davis, whose hits just came coming in this golden era for her. Charles Boyer provides […]

Jul, 25

The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir] **** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 2,588

François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]

Jun, 12

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang **** (1968, Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 2464

Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s 1968 children’s movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stars Dick Van Dyke as Edwardian inventor Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as his fiancée Truly Scrumptious, who whizz off in their flying, […]

May, 09

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