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Forever and a Day **** (1943, Claude Rains, C Aubrey Smith, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessie Matthews, Charles Laughton, Roland Young, Gladys Cooper, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 9383

’78 stars in one Great Picture!’ Europeans in Hollywood gave their services free for RKO Radio Pictures’s black and white drama 1943 Forever and a Day about a London house from 1804 to the Blitz […]

Feb, 14

Scene of the Crime *** (1949, Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, Gloria DeHaven, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, John McIntyre, Donald Woods, Norman Lloyd, Jerome Cowan, Tom Powers) – Classic Movie Review 8912

Director Roy Rowland’s 1949 Scene of the Crime is a cheap, fast and efficient production-line film noir crime thriller with Van Johnson as a Los Angeles homicide cop called Mike Conovan, handcuffed to a corpse […]

Sep, 17

Dream One [Nemo] **** (1984, Jason Connery, Mathilda May, Seth Kibel, Charley Boorman, Katrine Boorman, Harvey Keitel, Carole Bouquet, Michel Blanc) – Classic Movie Review 8747

Young Jason Connery, as the teenage Nemo, finds himself inside a dream in director Arnaud Sélignac’s charming, surreal 1984 children’s fantasy adventure Dream One [Nemo], inspired by Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo comic strip, with plenty […]

Jul, 23

Toolbox Murders *** (2004, Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Marco Rodríguez) – Classic Movie Review 5999

Angela Bettis and Brent Roam star as a married couple who move into an LA hotel apartment block, where the young women are being terrorised by a maniac in a balaclava-type ski-mask. There are lots […]

Aug, 29

Golden Boy ***** (1939, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Calleia, Lee J Cobb, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 5201

In 1939 director Rouben Mamoulian films Clifford Odets’s classic theatre play Golden Boy (with Luther Adler starring on stage) and it becomes a star-making tour de force for William Holden as a prizefighter Joe Bonaparte, […]

Mar, 26

Lady in a Cage **** (1964, Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Ann Sothern, Jeff Corey, Jennifer Billingsley, Rafael Campos, Scatman Crothers) – Classic Movie Review 4008

Director Walter Grauman’s excellent 1964 thriller is tough, gripping and scary. It finds Olivia de Havilland well cast and on good form as Mrs Cornelia Hilyard, a wealthy widowed invalid authoress trapped a dozen feet short […]

Jul, 12

Irrational Man *** (2015, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley) – Movie Review

  Woody Allen without the laughs, anybody? Joaquin Phoenix stars as Abe, a depressive, super-brainy, middle-aged philosophy professor who ironically finds the fresh will to live and a new zest for life when he commits murder. It’s […]

Sep, 09

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