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Sons and Lovers ****½ (1960, Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears, William Lucas, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 4498
Director Jack Cardiff’s 1960 British film Sons and Lovers is an astonishingly distinguished, and often heartrending version of the D H Lawrence semi-autobiographical novel. Young American star Dean Stockwell is entirely at ease as the […]
La Strada [The Road] ***** (1954, Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart) – Classic Movie Review 4203
Italian maestro film-maker Federico Fellini’s movie La Strada [The Road] won the first official Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1957 (previous winners only got special award Oscars) for this beautiful 1954 character study of […]
The Country Girl **** (1954, Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 3982
Grace Kelly won the Best Actress Oscar for her non-glamorous departure role as an alcoholic actor (Bing Crosby)’s long-suffering wife, in the 1954 drama The Country Girl. Writer-director George Seaton’s double Oscar-winning 1954 drama The Country […]
Our Man in Havana **** (1959, Alec Guinness, Noël Coward, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 1808
Director Carol Reed’s 1959 thriller finds the ideal fit in Alec Guinness, who is perfectly cast as Jim Wormold, the meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, in this delightful film of one of Graham Greene’s […]
A Kind of Loving **** (1962, Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 1482
‘You know, it’s a funny feeling. Sometimes I really fancy her, and the next day I can hardly stand the sight of her.’ – Vic Brown (Alan Bates). Director John Schlesinger’s gifted 1962 film A […]
The Breaking Point **** (1950, John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez) – Classic Movie Review 1347
Director Michael Curtiz and the Warner Bros studio go for a much more faithful version of Ernest Hemingway’s novel To Have and Have Not in 1950 and cast it strongly and ideally with John Garfield, […]
The Shipping News **** (2001, Kevin Spacey, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1291
All aboard director Lasse Hallström‘s 2001 The Shipping News, a first-class trip to the spectacular, chilly landscapes of Newfoundland, the setting for the plushest acting performances you will see in a long while. Kevin Spacey […]