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Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] ***** (1982, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Ewa Fröling, Kristina Adolphson, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 3934

Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]

Jun, 28

Desk Set *** (1957, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 3855

Director Walter Lang’s 1957 movie of a worked-over Broadway hit play is very enjoyable even if it seems a slight disappointment from the great star team of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Tracy stars in Desk […]

Jun, 13

Meet John Doe ****½ (1941, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 3848

Director Frank Capra’s vintage 1941 drama Meet John Doe stars Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold and Walter Brennan. Robert Riskin’s screenplay is based on the story The Life and Death of John Doe by […]

Jun, 11

Black Christmas [Silent Night, Evil Night] **** (1974, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Art Hindle, Andre Martin, John Saxon) – Classic Movie Review 3708

Black Christmas (1974): A group of sorority sisters gather to celebrate Christmas break, but there is something terrifying in their sorority house attic. Producer/ director Bob Clark’s 1974 Canadian shock suspense thriller is gorily gruesome […]

May, 15

Love Finds Andy Hardy *** (1938, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Lana Turner) – Classic Movie Review 3619

Mickey Rooney stars as teenage Andy Hardy who becomes entangled with three girls at the same time in director George B Seitz’s amusing and enjoyable 1938 MGM romantic comedy film, Love Finds Andy Hardy. It also […]

Apr, 26

A Bill of Divorcement *** (1932, John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, David Manners, Paul Cavanagh, Henry Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 3417

Director George Cukor’s 1932 drama is a creaky version of Clemence Dane’s family problem drama written for the theatre. It is virtually a static film of the play, but it is notable as the film début […]

Feb, 27

We’re No Angels *** (1955, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Leo G Carroll, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 3362

Director Michael Curtiz’s likeable but insubstantial 1955 Technicolor comedy, crime, romance movie We’re No Angels is cosy, kind-hearted, larkish entertainment, motoring almost entirely on its considerable star appeal. Humphrey Bogart plays Joseph, a prisoner who escapes at […]

Feb, 15

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