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Red Ball Express *** (1952, Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Sidney Poitier, Charles Drake, Judith Braun, Hugh O’Brian, Jacqueline Duval, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7675
Director Budd Boetticher’s 1952 World War Two-set wartime adventure Red Ball Express follows the route of the truck division of the title in their desperate journey through enemy-occupied French territory delivering supplies to General Patton’s […]
School’s Out [L’heure de la sortie] **** (2018, Laurent Lafitte, Luàna Bajrami, Emmanuelle Bercot, Victor Bonnel) – Movie Review
School’s Out stars as Monsieur Eric Capadis, the professor of French at the prestigious French College of St Joseph, jumps from the window in the middle of a class. Then the handsome, charming, honourable but […]
Stolen Holiday *** (1937, Claude Rains, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7419
Director Michael Curtiz’s impeccably presented, impressively played and well scripted 1937 romantic crime drama Stolen Holiday is based on a fictionalised version of the exploits of real-life Russian Jewish financier and conman Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky. […]
Madame Bovary *** (1991, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy) – Classic Movie Review 7344
The ideally cast Isabelle Huppert and Jean-François Balmer are splendid in Claude Chabrol’s lavish, handsome and well-played but dry, chilly, dark and depressing French 1991 film production of Gustave Flaubert’s much re-told story of how […]
Cyrano de Bergerac **** (1950, José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince) – Classic Movie Review 7229
Long before there was Gérard Depardieu in the 1990 French classic movie Cyrano de Bergerac, there was José Ferrer, who won the Best Actor award at the Oscars and Golden Globes as Edmond Rostand’s 17th-century […]
Désirée ** (1954, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 7144
Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]
Le Train [The Last Train] **** (1973, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Anne Wiazemsky, Serge Marquand, Maurice Biraud) – Classic Movie Review 7051
With its sour undertow of wartime and doomed love, director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1973 French-Italian World War Two drama film Le Train [The Last Train] is a moving, credible evocation of romance in a time of […]