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Lady Chatterley’s Lover [L’Amant de Lady Chatterley] ** (1955, Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, Erno Crisa) – Classic Movie Review 8907

Director Marc Allégret’s 1955 black and white drama Lady Chatterley’s Lover [L’Amant de Lady Chatterley] is an early French adaptation of the once scandalous D H Lawrence novel about a high-born English lady, Lady Constance […]

Sep, 15

L’amore **** (1948, Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Peparuolo, Amelia Robert) – Classic Movie Review 8798

Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 black and white double bill drama L’Amore [Ways of Love] [Woman] finds him leaving his usual area of neo-realism far behind for this heated, actress’s tour-de-force feature with two distinct episodes. […]

Aug, 05

A Doll’s House *** (1973, Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Anna Massey, Edith Evans) – Classic Movie Review 8437

Director Patrick Garland’s 1973 A Doll’s House was made hurriedly and released in Britain before Joseph Losey’s simultaneously made Jane Fonda version of A Doll’s House. It is a showcase for Claire Bloom, who re-creates […]

May, 06

Hotel Paradiso ** (1966, Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount) – Classic Movie Review 8219

Alec Guinness stars in director Peter Glenville’s 1966 British comedy Hotel Paradiso as mild Benedict Boniface, who wants to have a fling with his lovely neighbour Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida). She is being neglected by […]

Mar, 09

A Royal Scandal *** (1945, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 8208

Director Otto Preminger’s lush 1945 black and white costume drama A Royal Scandal [Czarina], with more than a few splashes of humour, stars Tallulah Bankhead as 18th century Russian queen Catherine the Great who shows […]

Mar, 06

The Brothers Rico **** (1957, Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Larry Gates, Paul Picerni) – Classic Movie Review 8014

Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller The Brothers Rico is taken from a Georges Simenon novel called Les Frères Rico, and stars Richard Conte, James Darren, Dianne Foster, Kathryn […]

Jan, 14

The Good Fairy **** (1935, Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 7948

Director William Wyler’s 1935 screwball romantic comedy The Good Fairy stars Margaret Sullavan as kindly but helpless young Budapest movie theatre worker Luisa ‘Lu’ Ginglebuscher, an orphaned usherette who attracts a quartet of admirers, in screen-writer […]

Dec, 28

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