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Il Generale della Rovere *** (1959, Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo) – Classic Movie Review 10,271
Roberto Rossellini’s intriguing and intelligent if rather sluggish and overlong (138 minutes) flagwaving 1959 black and white wartime picture Il Generale della Rovere has lots of interesting psychological things to say about the nature of […]
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse * (1962, Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 9301
Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]
Alone in Berlin * (2016, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl) – Movie Review
Three very good actors – Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl – are stranded through miscasting and poor writing in co-writer/ director Vincent Perez’s earnest and well-meaning World War Two wartime drama Alone in Berlin. It is based on the […]
Pimpernel Smith **** (1941, Leslie Howard, Mary Morris, Francis L Sullivan, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 5435
Producer/ director/ star Leslie Howard takes the Scarlet Pimpernel character into World War Two in his witty and exciting 1941 film reworking, with the director-star himself returning to one of his most famous roles in […]
Rogue Male ***½ (1976, Peter O’Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Cyd Hayman, Harold Pinter) – Classic Movie Review 4911
Peter O’Toole is ideally cast and gives a powerful performance as Captain Robert Thorndike, the resourceful, upper-class Englishman who sets out to shoot Adolf Hitler early in 1939. O’Toole gives a strong boost to director Clive Donner’s […]
Lacombe, Lucien **** (1974, Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler) – Classic Movie Review 4506
Co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1974 French wartime drama stars Pierre Blaise as the French peasant teenager Lucien Lacombe who lives in small town in the south-west of France, while his father is a prisoner of war […]
Paris Underground [Madame Pimpernel] *** (1945, Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields) – Classic Movie Review 3349
Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields form an odd but likeable double act as an American woman and her English friend who join forces to hide Allied fliers from the Nazis in occupied Paris in World […]