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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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The Return of Martin Guerre [Le Retour de Martin Guerre] **** (1982, Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Sylvie Meda) – Classic Movie Review 4985
Co-writer/ director Daniel Vigne’s highly popular and successful 1982 romantic crime drama, based on the novel by Janet Lewis, finds Gérard Depardieu at a career peak. Depardieu does well, taking on a for him unusual quiet dignity […]
Lloyd’s of London *** (1936, Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Freddie Bartholomew, C Aubrey Smith, Guy Standing, Virginia Field, Montagu Love, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 4688
Director Henry King’s 1936 period drama stars Tyrone Power, whose career took off with this role as Lloyd’s insurance boss Jonathan Blake, who, it is alleged, is the friend of Lord Nelson (John Burton). Blake […]
Author: The JT LeRoy Story **** (2016, Laura Albert, Bruce Benderson, Dennis Cooper) – Movie Review
It is hard not to be really impressed by and engrossed in Jeff Feuerzeig’s meticulously researched and imaginatively presented documentary. The unbelievable Author: The JT LeRoy Story is riveting and fascinating – and raises so many […]
The Big Short **** (2015, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, Finn Wittrock) – Movie Review
Co-writer/director Adam McKay’s dynamic and janglingly vibrating movie tells three separate but parallel true stories of the America mortgage housing crisis of 2005 like it’s a near cousin of The Wolf of Wall Street. It’s […]
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 […]
F for Fake **** (1973, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 2459
Orson Welles’s entertaining free-form documentary about fraud and fakery sees him reflecting on truth and illusion in an insubstantial and jokey but resourceful and witty artifice that uses a re-edited TV documentary about a famous […]
Quiz Show *** (1994, Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow) – Classic Movie Review 2254
Director Robert Redford conscientiously probes the circumstances, characters and issues surrounding the scandal attached to American TV’s rigging of the then famous 1950s quiz show Twenty One. It was so popular that fifty million people watched […]