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The Wreck of the Mary Deare *** (1959, Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Richard Harris, Cecil Parker, Alexander Knox, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 3,846

The 1959 film The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a solid adventure about mysterious nautical doings, mixing sea air with courtroom claustrophobia. Gary Cooper gives a trusty turn as the captain of a seemingly […]

Jun, 11

Ivanhoe **** (1952, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3654

Finding first choice Stewart Granger otherwise engaged, MGM studios cast their then waning star Robert Taylor as the disowned knight Ivanhoe in director Richard Thorpe’s thoroughly enjoyable Normans versus Saxons 1952 mediaeval swashbuckler Ivanhoe, derived […]

May, 03

The L-Shaped Room **** (1962, Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Bernard Lee, Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Emlyn Williams, Nanette Newman, Patricia Phoenix, Avis Bunnage) – Classic Movie Review 2427

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1962 film is a fragrant slice of Sixties London kitchen-sink life. It is one of the highspots of the brief flowering of British Sixties New Wave cinema. But it has international French star […]

Apr, 26

The Stars Look Down **** (1940, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby) – 2015 Classic Movie Review 2205

Director Carol Reed’s admirable 1940 movie version of A J Cronin’s novel is meticulously crafted, crisply scripted and expertly performed by a fine cast. It stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick, a […]

Feb, 23

The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1332

‘Moderation is a vastly over-rated virtue.’ – Miss Lilly Moffat. Director Irving Rapper directs Bette Davis in the 1945 drama The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher dismayed by the […]

Jun, 17

Jamaica Inn *** (1939, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Marie Ney, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 390

Even if you think of the 1939 pirate malarkey adventure Jamaica Inn as a period whodunit, director Alfred Hitchcock is way off his usual territory with such melodramatic costume drama hokum based Daphne du Maurier’s […]

Nov, 10

The Man Who Knew Too Much **** (1934, Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay) – Classic Movie Review 242

The 1934 first of Alfred Hitchcock’s two highly entertaining versions of his suspense thriller spy story boasts a nimble, fast-paced spring in its step, along with several of his finest suspense sequences, a great quirky sense of […]

Sep, 14

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