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Sky West and Crooked [Gypsy Girl] *** (1966, Hayley Mills, Ian McShane, Annette Crosbie, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 8242

Love blossoms between backward and troublesome teenage country girl Brydie White (played by Hayley Mills) and gypsy lad Roibin (Ian McShane), in the 1966 British romantic drama Sky West and Crooked [Gypsy Girl], a pretty […]

Mar, 13

The Last of Sheila **** (1973, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane, Raquel Welch, James Mason) – Classic Movie Review 8099

A fine near all-star cast enlivens producer-director Herbert Ross’s elegant 1973 satirical murder mystery The Last of Sheila, ingeniously written, unexpectedly, by mystery buffs Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, who set loose a barrage of […]

Feb, 06

The Road Home [Wo de fu qin mu qin] **** (1999, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng) – Classic Movie Review 7887

There is superb acting in Zhang Yimou’s heart-rending, exquisitely realised 1999 Chinese film The Road Home, a tale of pure and simple love that does not put a foot wrong and will have hardly a […]

Dec, 06

The Last Command **** (1928, Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 7641

Emil Jannings and William Powell star in the 1928 Oscar-winning silent classic The Last Command as two men who used to be political as well as personal adversaries in revolutionary Russia, who are forced by international politics […]

Oct, 06

The Red Badge of Courage **** (1951, Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick, Royal Dano, John Dierkes, Tim Durant, Andy Devine, Arthur Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 7290

John Huston’s studio-butchered 1951 US Civil War movie The Red Badge of Courage is remarkable for its battle scenes and for Audie Murphy’s career-best performance. Writer-director John Huston’s 1951 film of Stephen Crane’s 1895 US Civil […]

Jul, 14

Desire Me * (1947, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart) – Classic Movie Review 7145

Robert Mitchum stars as the presumed dead soldier Paul Aubert, who comes home to Brittany from war service in World War Two to find his battle and German prison camp buddy Jean (Richard Hart, from […]

Jun, 10

Lawless Heart **** (2001, Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 7132

Three men take stock of their lives after the death of a gay restaurateur friend in writer-directors Tom Hunsiger and Neil Hunter’s 2001 British intersecting stories film Lawless Heart. The acclaimed, extremely well-acted and very carefully […]

Jun, 08

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