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Suddenly, Last Summer **** (1959, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift) -Classic Movie Review 2613

‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]

Jun, 18

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ***** (1966, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1395

Director Mike Nichols brings Edward Albee’s vitriolic, soul-searching 1962 play to the screen in a savage, razor-edged 1966 movie. It sounds like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. You might want to turn away from the […]

Jul, 05

The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300

Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]

Jun, 07

The Taming of the Shrew **** (1967, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael York, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Alfred Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 1118

Director Franco Zeffirelli brings immense zest, impressive vitality and glorious colour to his 1967 film of the William Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew, while ideally cast and on-form, fired-up Richard Burton and Elizabeth […]

Apr, 19

Giant **** (1956, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson) – Classic Movie Review 1080

George Stevens’s ambitious 1956 film Giant was a triumph for him, winning the Best Director Oscar. But it is most memorable for 24-year-old James Dean’s final role as bitter entrepreneur Jett Rink, set on destroying […]

Apr, 12

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ***** (1958, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 174

Elizabeth Taylor stars as the sexy, taunting hussy Maggie the Cat, plotting to re-arouse the limp sexual interest of her sulky, alcoholic, gay husband, Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman). Brick is reunited with his father Big […]

Aug, 19

National Velvet **** (1944, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Jackie Jenkins) – Classic Film Review 70

‘What’s the meaning of goodness if there isn’t a little badness to overcome?’ Discuss! Ancient now it may be, but the MGM Studio’s fondly remembered 1944 Christmas treat can still be a good-natured rosette winner for […]

Jul, 20

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