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Tuesdays with Morrie **** (1999, Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz) – Classic Movie Review 7093

In one of his last roles, the great Jack Lemmon touches the heart in a clever, intense, intimate performance as the old Morrie Schwartz, who is dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, in director Mick Jackson’s […]

May, 25

Pete ‘n’ Tillie **** (1972, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page) – Classic Movie Review 7044

Director Martin Ritt’s 1972 comedy drama is funny, heartwarming and hugely likeable, with a good script lifted high by ingratiating performances from the supremely expert and ideally paired comedians Walter Matthau and Carol Burnett as […]

May, 12

Starting Over **** (1979, Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen) – Classic Movie Review 7024

Director Alan J Pakula’s charming 1979 comedy-romance effectively casts Burt Reynolds as Phil Potter, the romantically inclined divorced writer who falls in love but finds he cannot choose between sweet teacher Marilyn Holmberg (Jill Clayburgh) […]

May, 09

Black Jack *** (1979, Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Jean Franval) – Classic Movie Review 6986

Writer-director Ken Loach’s dark and complex 1979 costume adventure drama is based on Leon Garfield’s novel about the adventures of a roguish 18th-century French sailor and thief called Black Jack (Jean Franval) in Yorkshire who […]

May, 01

Three Comrades **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young) – Classic Movie Review 6695

F Scott Fitzgerald gains his only scriptwriter credit during his stay at MGM (though he also worked on A Yank at Oxford and The Women) for his adaptation (along with Edward E Paramore Jr) of […]

Feb, 15

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness **** (1958, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, Curd Jürgens) – Classic Movie Review 6596

Director Mark Robson’s long but satisfying 1958 British drama The Inn of the Sixth Happiness stars Ingrid Bergman, who triumphs over her physical miscasting in a heartwarming turn as Gladys Aylward, the English missionary who […]

Jan, 23

White Fang *** (1991, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel, Susan Hogan, James Remar, Bill Moseley) – Classic Movie Review 6367

Director Randal Kleiser’s very popular, smoothly efficient and extremely good-looking 1991 Disney film version of the old Jack London story stars the young Ethan Hawke, who gives an appealing performance as young gold hunter Jack […]

Dec, 07

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