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- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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The Way We Were ***½ (1973, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 2272
Director Sydney Pollack’s double Oscar-winning 1973 romantic drama The Way We Were is a thoroughly professional old-style Hollywood piece of work, well intentioned and often entertaining but hollow at the centre and painstakingly but mechanically […]
Crossfire **** (1947, Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly, Sam Levene, William Phipps) – Classic Movie Review 2171
Director Edward Dmytryk’s gripping and intelligent 1947 low-budget film noir crime thriller Crossfire is a flashback-told conscience-raiser about the hate murder of a Jewish man in a New York hotel. Apart from being a fine thriller, […]
Ordinary People ***** (1980, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch) – Classic Movie Review 2077
Director Robert Redford’s 1980 début as film director proves absolutely extraordinary and had the American Academy of Arts and Sciences lavishing four Oscars on it. Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture for […]
Frankenstein *½ (1994, Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Briers, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 2034
Kenneth Branagh comes a cropper as both actor and director of this plush band ambitious but stodgy and unconvincing 1994 version of Mary Shelley’s classic horror tale that just seems to be going through the […]
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ***** (1986, Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara) – Classic Movie Review 1969
A delightful Matthew Broderick stars as Ferris Bueller, an American high school wise guy who is determined to have a day off from school, in writer-director John Hughes’s quintessential eighties teen comedy. Funny, charming and […]
Calendar Girls ****½ (2003, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie) – Classic Movie Review 1959
Keep a date with Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Linda Bassett as the real-life Yorkshire Women’s Institute ladies who — oh so demurely! — go the full monty for […]
Open Your Eyes [Abre Los Ojos] **** (1997, Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera) – Classic Movie Review 1818
Co-writer/director Alejandro Amenábar’s smart and polished 1997 Spanish romantic mystery drama was remade as Vanilla Sky by Cameron Crowe in 2001 with Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz repeating the role she plays here. A rich, handsome womanising […]