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The Road Back *** (1937, John ‘Dusty’ King, Richard Cromwell, Slim Summerville, Andy Devine, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 3427
This ambitious and interesting but disappointing, Universal studio-butchered 1937 follow-up to All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was planned by director James Whale and writer R C Sherriff as the definitive anti-war movie to cap […]
Oedipus the King **** (1968, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Orson Welles, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack, Roger Livesey, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 3274
That great actor Christopher Plummer is stupendous as Oedipus in co-writer/director Philip Saville’s brave and imaginative attempt to film the classic Sophocles Greek tragic play. And Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer and Richard Johnson are marvellous also as the doomsayer […]
Blood and Sand **** (1941, Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth, Linda Darnell, Nazimova, J Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Anthony Quinn, Laird Cregar) – Classic Movie Review 2997
Director Rouben Mamoulian remakes the famous 1922 Rudolph Valentino silent classic in this fascinating and colourful if less extravagant 1941 version of the Vicente Blasco Ibáñez novel about a poor illiterate peasant boy Juan Gallardo […]
Anastasia *** (1956, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Sacha Pitoeff) – Classic Movie Review 2650
Director Anatole Litvak’s 1956 movie brought Ingrid Bergman back to Hollywood for a triumphant return after a seven-year gap, unofficially blacklisted and apparently in disgrace with the American public over her extra-marital affair with Italian […]
The Queen of Spades **** (1949, Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2460
The 1949 fantasy horror film The Queen of Spades is based on the 1834 short story by Alexander Pushkin, and stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell. Martin Scorsese said: ‘This stunning film is one of the few true classics […]
The Madwoman of Chaillot *** (1969, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 2431
Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]
The Green Room [La chambre verte] **** (1978, François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté) – Classic Movie Review 2297
Director François Truffaut casts himself as Julien Davenne, a provincial journalist in a little French town at the end of the 1920s. He’s an obituary writer obsessively looking back on the death of his wife Julie […]