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Posts Tagged "French Revolution"
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The Elusive Pimpernel [The Fighting Pimpernel] *** (1950, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 5,503
David Niven makes an affable if not inspired Scarlet Pimpernel (aka British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney) in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s costly, colourful 1950 film The Elusive Pimpernel. David Niven makes an affable if […]
Orphans of the Storm ***** (1921, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne) – Classic Movie Review 5218
Writer-producer-director D W Griffith’s 1921 big-budget ($1,000,000) historical romantic drama, based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon, is the last of his series of really great silent epic films and […]
History of the World: Part I * (1981, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Gregory Hines, Sid Caesar) – Classic Movie Review 4044
This self-indulgent, smutty 1981 ‘adult’ comedy from the normally gloriously funny Mel Brooks is a near total flop, despite his genial and ever-welcome presence and that of his equally amiable stock company. It is sad […]
The Black Book [Reign of Terror] *** (1949, Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl, Beulah Bondi, Richard Hart, Arnold Moss, Norman Lloyd, Charles McGraw) – Classic Movie Review 3324
Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot adventure drama The Black Book has a complex plot and a well-researched French Revolution background. Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot black and white adventure drama The Black Book [Reign […]
The Scarlet Pimpernel ***** (1935, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2949
‘They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him here everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel.’ Director Harold Young’s high-spirited 1935 British adventure movie […]
Carry On: Don’t Lose Your Head *** (1966, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Dany Robin, Peter Butterworth, Peter Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 1128
‘Carry On laughing until you have hysterics, but… Don’t Lose Your Head!’ The 1967 British comedy film Don’t Lose Your Head is the 13th in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992), and features […]