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The Frightened City *** (1961, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Holt, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8052
The frightened city is London, where unexpectedly they are behaving just like in Chicago, as mobsters join a protection syndicate then fall out when gang boss Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks) establishes a mafia of his […]
Savage Messiah **** (1972, Scott Anthony, Dorothy Tutin, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough, John Justin, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 7867
Director Ken Russell’s 1972 biographical drama Savage Messiah is a passionate pre-World War One biopic of the French painter-sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and older Polish woman Sophie Brzeska. It is a miniaturist masterwork from Russell in a […]
When Comedy Was King *** (1960, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Ben Turpin, Fatty Arbuckle) – Classic Movie Review 7589
Double Oscar-winning writer-producer Robert Youngson’s 1960 compilation feature film When Comedy Was King toasts the great clowns of silent comedy and brings together excerpts from many silent slapstick classics, which are carefully edited together for […]
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break [What a Man] ***** (1941, W C Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Dumont ) – Classic Movie Review 7395
Director Edward F Cline’s 1941 comedy Never Give a Sucker an Even Break finds the great W C Fields on superb form as ‘The Great Man’ in this story (written by him as Otis Criblecoblis) […]
Barney’s Version **** (2010, Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Scott Speedman, Mark Addy, Rachelle Lefevre) – Classic Movie Review 4611
Paul Giamatti rightly won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his marvellously rich, entertaining and rewarding performance as a neurotic, grouchy and straight-talking TV […]
Tombstone **** (1993, Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestley, Stephen Lang) – Classic Movie Review 4,169
George Cosmatos’s 1993 film Tombstone stars Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, and is written by Kevin Jarre, the original director, fired early in production. The film was a hit […]
Meet Me in St Louis ***** (1944, Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Leon Ames, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 1119
Director Vincente Minnelli’s nostalgic, warm-hearted, colourful classic MGM musical Meet Me in St Louis is based on novelist Sally Benson’s family 1944 saga, which is set in St Louis in 1903 just before the Louisiana Purchase […]