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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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The 49th Parallel [Invaders] **** (1941, Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Eric Portman, Anton Walbrook, Richard George) – Classic Film Review 635
A German submarine appears from the ocean deeps in the Gulf of St Lawrence, its leader Lieutenant Hirth (Eric Portman) and his six men arrive on land to find supplies. But two RAF bombs sink the […]
Hobson’s Choice ***** (1954, Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Prunella Scales) – Classic Film Review 342
The charismatic Charles Laughton’s expertly judged, delightfully quirky and magnetically larger-than-life performance as 19th-century shop owner Henry Hobson is a greatly loved, career-peak for this admired actor. It is the heart and soul and central […]
Blithe Spirit ***** (1945, Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield, Joyce Carey) – Classic Movie Review 322
Noël Coward’s 1941 comedy Blithe Spirit is one of his finest plays. In 1945 Coward told film director David Lean: ‘Just photograph it, dear boy’, but Lean made changes, including a new ending ‘ruining my […]
Brief Encounter ***** (1945, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Cyril Raymond, Joyce Carey, Stanley Holloway, Everley Gregg, Irene Handl, Alfie Bass) – Classic Movie Review 167
‘You’ve been a long way away.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Thank you for coming back to me.’ David Lean’s superb 1945 film of Noël Coward’s famous tearjerker is a much loved, much admired, much enjoyed classic. Taking the […]
Oliver Twist ***** (1948, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies) – Classic Movie Review 165
Director David Lean’s richly entertaining 1948 movie adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist is still by far the best attempt to put the book on screen. Though he was accused of anti-Semitism in […]
Lawrence of Arabia ***** (1962, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Claude Rains, Anthony Quayle, Donald Wolfit, I S Johar) – Classic Movie Review 42
Costing a then record $13 million in 1962, director David Lean’s highly distinguished, monumental classic is surely the epic to end all epics, even more than Cleopatra the next year. Beautifully restored in 2012 for […]