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Marie Antoinette **** (1938, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9901

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 black and white historical film Marie Antoinette is a lavish, elaborate, years-in-the-making epic from the MGM studio, with Norma Shearer as the French queen Marie Antoinette, who becomes […]

Jun, 13

Scaramouche **** (1952, Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 9883

Director George Sidney’s 1952 MGM rip-snorting Technicolor adventure tale Scaramouche is based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini and has main star Stewart Granger swashing a florid buckle as André-Louis Moreau, who needs to wreak […]

Jun, 09

Red Wedding [Les noces rouges] ***½ (1973, Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu) – Classic Movie Review 9872

Those cool and distinguished players Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli star in writer-director Claude Chabrol’s 1973 Hitchcockian crime thriller Red Wedding [Les noces rouges] as Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury, who are having an affair […]

Jun, 06

So This Is Paris *** (1954, Tony Curtis, Gloria DeHaven, Gene Nelson, Corinne Calvet, Mara Corday, Paul Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 9774

Director Richard Quine’s vibrant if messy and cheap-looking 1954 Technicolor musical So This Is Paris has a trio of Yankee sailors, Joe, Al and Davy (Tony Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert), on furlough chasing […]

May, 16

The Road to Glory **** (1936, Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9755

Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]

May, 12

Mr Topaze *** (1961, Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 9517

Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr Topaze, starring in an old role previously played by John Barrymore in Topaze back in 1933, as an upright French school teacher fired when he […]

Mar, 16

Nenette and Boni [Nénette et Boni] ** (1996, Grégoire Colin, Alice Houri, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Vincent Gallo, Jacques Nolot) – Classic Movie Review 9407

Co-writer/ director Claire Denis’s 1996 Nenette and Boni [Nénette et Boni] is a difficult, edgy, sometimes un-realised picture, with some good scenes and dialogue as well as a couple of persuasive, even attractive, star performances […]

Feb, 21

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