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- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
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- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
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Legend of the Werewolf ** (1975, Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Roy Castle David Rintoul) – Classic Movie Review 6208
Director Freddie Francis’s moderate British 1975 horror movie stars Peter Cushing as the police surgeon/ coroner Professor Paul, a lycanthrope expert who turns detective and follows the werewolf trail of grisly murders in 19th century France […]
Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142
Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]
Masculin Féminin **** (1966, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert) – Classic Movie Review 6063
The 1965 Masculin Féminin is one of the Sixties masterworks of French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, who employs his once-friend François Truffaut’s star Jean-Pierre Léaud as his hero Paul. Paul is a member of […]
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ***½ (1939, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6017
The last of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s great series of musicals at RKO Radio Pictures (with a single reunion to come, The Barkleys of Broadway, at MGM a decade later) is a nostalgic biopic of […]
Le Serpent [The Serpent] *** (1973, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Farley Granger, Philippe Noiret, Virna Lisi, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 5992
Co-writer/ producer/ director Henri Verneuil’s 1973 French movie for the international market is a standard, Seventies realist spy-thriller, with a gritty, sombre tone. It boasts an exceptional star line-up, which is one of its main […]
The Diary of a Chambermaid [Le Journal d’une Femme de Chambre] ***** (1964, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret, Daniel Ivernel) – Classic Movie Review 5835
Director Luis Buñuel’s 1964 reworking of Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood film of The Diary of a Chambermaid hones the social analysis, blackens the tone, sharpens the script and updates the action to the Thirties for […]
The Sergeant *** (1968, Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law, Frank Latimore, Ludmila Mikael) – Classic Movie Review 5725
Director John Flynn’s well-meaning but overheated, and now badly dated 1968 gay melodrama in which Rod Steiger stars as Master Sergeant Albert Callan who understandably gets steamed up over young handsome private Tom Swanson (John […]