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The Canterville Ghost **** (1944, Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 6845
Sir Simon de Canterville: ‘Excuse me, I really must gibber at the oriole window.’ Director Jules Dassin’s 1943 fantasy comedy is freely based on the delightful Oscar Wilde story and is full of lighthearted whimsy […]
Valley of the Dragons * (1961, Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley) – Classic Movie Review 6597
Spacemen versus prehistoric monsters – that should be good then, but no! Writer-director Edward Bernds’s 1961 sci-fi fantasy adventure thriller Valley of the Dragons is a silly, cheap and unconvincing version of Jules Verne’s novel […]
The Duellists **** (1977, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Conti, Robert Stephens, John McEnery, Diana Quick) – Classic Movie Review 6461
Director Ridley Scott’s 1977 debut British feature film is an eye-catching version of Joseph Conrad’s story The Duel about two French Napoleonic officers (Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel) who engage in epic feuding in a bizarre […]
Effi Briest **** (1974, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Karl-Heinz Böhm) – Classic Movie Review 6183
Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 German gem is based on the novel by Theodor Fontane. These were glory days for Fassbinder. Fassbinder turns this 19th-century tale of the teenaged beauty Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) into one of […]
Flesh and the Devil ****½ (1927, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson) – Classic Movie Review 5326
This famous 1927 silent movie is the first of seven Greta Garbo films directed by Clarence Brown and first of four with her beloved favourite co-star, John Gilbert. Garbo stars as Felicitas, who seduces various […]
Letter from an Unknown Woman ***** (1948, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians) – Classic Movie Review 5247
Director Max Ophüls’s gloriously romantic 1948 movie provides a memorable walk on the wild side of romance here as Joan Fontaine’s character Lisa Berndle is overwhelmed by unrequited love for dashing but self-obsessed womanising pianist Stefan Brand (played […]
Don Q, Son of Zorro **** (1925, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Jack McDonald, Jean Hersholt, Warner Oland) – Classic Movie Review 5063
Director Donald Crisp’s fondly regarded 1925 silent semi-classic adventure movie is a notable showcase for Douglas Fairbanks Sr near the peak of his form. Following up his 1920 hit The Mark of Zorro, Fairbanks Sr […]