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The Notorious Landlady ***½ (1962, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 5,112

Loveable Jack Lemmon squeezes in a juicy comedy performance in Richard Quine’s amusing and stylish 1962 screwball comedy-cum-mystery The Notorious Landlady. Lemmon partners with Kim Novak, who designed her own gowns. Bill Gridley (Jack Lemmon) […]

Mar, 06

The Spanish Gardener **** (1956, Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 4,598

Dirk Bogarde stars as José, the gardener who actually can communicate with the teenage son (Jon Whiteley) of the brusque British consul (Michael Hordern) in Spain, in the 1956 British film The Spanish Gardener. Director […]

Nov, 06

The Constant Gardener **** (2005, Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy) – Classic Movie Review 3169

Ralph Fiennes stars as widower Justin Quayle, who is determined to uncover a potentially explosive secret involving the murder of his activist wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz), in director Fernando Meirelles’s excellent 2005 movie of the novel by John […]

Dec, 18

Crossroads *** (1942, William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Basil Rathbone, Claire Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 2595

Director Jack Conway’s glitzy 1942 mystery film noir thriller is set in Paris in 1935 and tells an engrossing story with classic vintage actors. Despite being made during World War Two and its setting, there’s no hint of […]

Jun, 14

A Countess from Hong Kong **** (1967, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Charles Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 2551

Marlon Brando stars in A Countess from Hong Kong as the rich American diplomat Ogden Mears who spends his last night in Hong Kong with Russian Countess Natascha (Sophia Loren), who follows him on board his […]

Jun, 02

Dream Wife ** (1953, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St John) – Classic Movie Review 2,342

The 1953 MGM romantic comedy film Dream Wife is notable as the first of three movies that paired Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Grant plays a business tycoon whose gaze falls on the pretty Arabian […]

Mar, 31

Lost Horizon ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,210

Shangri-la seems to be the perfect escape, but is it the Utopia it appears? Frank Capra’s charming 1937 romantic adventure film Lost Horizon stars Ronald Colman. Director Frank Capra’s 1937 romantic adventure classic film Lost […]

Feb, 24

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