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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace ** (1962, Christopher Lee, Senta Berger, Thorley Walters, Ivan Desny, Hans Söhnker, Hans Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 11,110

And so the Hammer Films trio of Christopher Lee, Thorley Walters and Terence Fisher head off for Germany and C Lee gets to play Sherlock Holmes following his role as Sir Henry Baskerville in Hammer’s […]

Apr, 18

Caesar and Cleopatra *** (1945, Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Cecil Parker, Flora Robson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 7427

George Bernard Shaw’s clever, though minor play Caesar and Cleopatra is perfectly cast for the screen in 1945: Claude Rains as the ageing Roman conqueror Julius Caesar and Vivien Leigh as the young Nile beauty […]

Aug, 11

Gidget Goes to Rome ** (1963, James Darren, Cindy Carol, Jessie Royce Landis, Cesare Danova) – Classic Movie Review 3386

A disappointing Cindy Carol takes over as the 17-year-old Gidget in returning director Paul Wendkos’s modest but nice-looking 1963 second sequel to Gidget (1959). And, guess what?, the  ‘girl midget’ is off to Rome. Happily, James […]

Feb, 19

Freaks ***** (1932, Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Henry Victor) – Classic Movie Review 2462

‘Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.’ MGM production supervisor Irving Thalberg, a man of discernment who produced immaculately tasteful films like Romeo and Juliet, ordered something that ‘out-horrors Frankenstein’. And director […]

May, 08

Cleopatra **** (1934, Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 2413

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s incredibly lavish and kitsch 1934 epic version of the Cleopatra story is infectiously extravagant in every way, as befits the ultimate showman he was. He was determined to make a popular […]

Apr, 20

Carry On Cleo **** (1964, Sidney James, Joan Sims, Amanda Barrie, Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor) – Classic Film Review 1133

In 1964, the Carry On team make one of their very best, most loved movies, hilariously spoofing Elizabeth Taylor’s film Cleopatra, using the sets they abandoned at Pinewood studios when filming moved to Cinecitta in […]

Apr, 21

Cleopatra ***** (1963, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens) – Classic Film Review 37

Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic film Cleopatra was more famous as a media event than a movie – it’s the moment when Elizabeth Taylor met Richard Burton, creating an unprecedented media storm that helped create […]

Jul, 09

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