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Treasure Island **** (1950, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 2058

Ah, ha, Jim lad! The inimitable, or very imitable, Robert Newton is an absolute knockout in the 1950 adventure film Treasure Island as the best-ever eccentric pirate captain Long John Silver. Go on, Talk Like […]

Jan, 09

The Fallen Idol ***** (1948, Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel) – Classic Movie Review 1835

Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]

Nov, 12

Odd Man Out ***** (1946, James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 1807

Director Carol Reed’s moody, impeccably crafted 1946 British thriller showcases one of James Mason’s most renowned performances as Johnny McQueen, an IRA Irish nationalist leader gunman who commits a failed mill robbery in Belfast, kills […]

Nov, 05

Taste the Blood of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Ralph Bates, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford) – Classic Movie Review 1735

Director Peter Sasdy’s 1970 horror thriller Taste the Blood of Dracula is the fourth in the famous British Hammer Films Dracula series with Christopher Lee, a watchable follow-up to 1968’s Dracula Has Risen from the […]

Oct, 02

Live Now – Pay Later **** (1962, Ian Hendry, Liz Fraser, June Ritchie, John Gregson) – Classic Movie Review 1,480

‘There’s 200,000 consumers in this town, and they’re all waiting for you… just you.’ – Mr Callendar (John Gregson). ‘Yeah, to con ’em into buying a whole load of stuff they don’t need and can’t […]

Jul, 27

A View to a Kill *** (1985, Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Bauchau, David Yip, Fiona Fullerton, Dolph Lundgren) – Classic Movie Review 828

In his seventh Bond movie, A View to a Kill directed by John Glen in 1985, Roger Moore enjoys his last outing as James Bond with this low-voltage tale in which 007 is pitted against blond super-baddie […]

Feb, 15

Octopussy *** (1983, Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Steven Berkoff, Vijay Amritraj, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi) – Classic Movie Review 698

Gizmos and gadgets take first place in the Roger Moore 1983 James Bond film Octopussy, but the humour is quite a lot of fun and there is plenty of action and adventure. Directed by John […]

Jan, 17

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