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Poppy **** (1936, W C Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Lynne Overman, Catherine Doucet) – Classic Movie Review 9788

Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1936 comedy Poppy finds W C Fields on hilarious form repeating his 1925 filming of his stage hit Sally of the Sawdust as carnival medicine salesman conman Professor Eustace McGargle. He […]

May, 18

Journey into Autumn [Dreams] [Kvinnodröm] *** (1955, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ulf Palme) – Classic Movie Review 9687

The 1955 Swedish drama Journey into Autumn [Dreams] [Kvinnodröm] is a lesser but still intriguing and important early Ingmar Bergman film about fashion photographer Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck) and her young model Doris (Harriet Andersson)’s trip […]

Apr, 28

The Shiralee **** (1957, Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 9656

Director Leslie Norman’s 1957 British Australian Western film The Shiralee is produced by Michael Balcon, made by Ealing Studios, and stars Peter Finch, Dana Wilson and Elizabeth Sellars. It is based on the debut full-length […]

Apr, 20

The River Rat *** (1984, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Martha Plimpton) – Classic Movie Review 9655

Writer-director Thomas [Tom] Rickman’s powerful 1984 Mississippi-set drama The River Rat is all about the growing love between Billy McCain (Tommy Lee Jones) and his plucky 12-year-old daughter Jonsy (Martha Plimpton), who meet for the […]

Apr, 19

Captain Boycott *** (1947, Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 9467

Irish farmers break off the yoke of the wicked English landlords, in co-writer/ co-producer/ director Frank Launder’s fair Victorian historical drama, Captain Boycott (1947), set in 1880. It is strongly cast, though Stewart Granger (as […]

Mar, 06

The Pleasure of His Company *** (1961, Fred Astaire, Lilli Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Tab Hunter, Gary Merrill, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 9382

Director George Seaton’s fairly civilised and sophisticated 1961 comedy The Pleasure of His Company stars Fred Astaire as debonair, man-about-town Biddeford ‘Pogo’ Poole, who comes home for the marriage of his long neglected daughter, San […]

Feb, 14

Little Women ** (2019, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep) – Movie Review

Little Women (2019) is nominated for six Oscars and five Baftas, but it is an over-earnest, plodding and underwhelming movie, with writer-director Greta Gerwig struggling to make Louisa May Alcott’s novel more ‘modern’ and ‘relevant’ […]

Jan, 14

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