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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Cattle Drive *** (1951, Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames, Bob Steele) – Classic Movie Review 8399
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1951 Universal International Western movie Cattle Drive may not be outstanding, but it is well crafted, entirely amiable and appealingly acted – Joel McCrea and Dean Stockwell are excellent – with outstanding […]
Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] **** (1985, Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Kevin Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 8388
Director Michael Dinner’s 1985 Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] is a fresh and funny film about Catholic high school life at St Basil’s Catholic Boys’ Prep School in Brooklyn in 1965 that manages to put […]
The Good Fairy **** (1935, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7948
Director William Wyler’s 1935 screwball romantic comedy The Good Fairy stars Margaret Sullavan as kindly but helpless young Budapest movie theatre worker Luisa ‘Lu’ Ginglebuscher, an orphaned usherette who attracts a quartet of admirers, in screen-writer […]
Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] **** (1966, Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 7497
Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]
My Friend Dahmer *** (2017, Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Vincent Kartheiser) – Movie Review
Very creepy – a true horror story. The tricky to pull off mix of realism and black comedy really works. The acting helps a lot to keep it real and powerful. Co-writer/ director Marc Meyers’s […]
Moonrise Kingdom **** (2012, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton) – Classic Movie Review 6984
The ever quirky co-writer/ director Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom (2012) takes place on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, when a 12-year-old boy (Jared Gilman as Sam) and a 12-year-old girl […]
Lady Bird *** (2017, Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lois Smith, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet) – Movie Review
Lady Bird has its charms, a lot of them, but is way over-praised. It is best to come to it fresh, without knowledge or expectations of it. Then it might well charm and impress. It […]