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The Visit *** (1964, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa) – Classic Movie Review 9758
Director Bernhard Wicki’s 1964 The Visit [Der Besuch] stars Ingrid Bergman as rich Carla Zachanassian, who goes back home to bribe the townsfolk and to kill Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn), who seduced and drove her […]
Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] ***** (1990, Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty) – Classic Movie Review 8722
Director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1990 French gem Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] stars Tsilla Chelton, who is magnificently awful as the rich old, recently widowed grandma, whose only pleasure in life is tormenting her relatives and anyone […]
Night Watch *** (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 8625
The 1973 horror mystery thriller film Night Watch is a plush, suspenseful version of Lucille Fletcher’s stage chiller. Elizabeth Taylor is on top hysterical form as a rich wife convinced she has witnessed a murder […]
The Nanny **** (1965, Bette Davis, Jill Bennett, William Dix, James Villiers, Wendy Craig, Pamela Franklin, Maurice Denham, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 6943
Director Seth Holt’s 1965 suspense thriller The Nanny stars Bette Davis, who came to Britain to Elstree Studios to work for Hammer Film Productions as the supposedly devoted English Nanny with a dark secret in charge of a disturbed little 10-year-old boy […]
The Killing of Sister George **** (1968, Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 6553
Director Robert Aldrich’s dark-toned 1969 lesbian drama features a splendid, career-best performance by Beryl Reid as June ‘George’ Buckridge, the ageing, bad-tempered, drunken lesbian actress whose imminent demise in a radio serial makes life hell […]
Games ***½ (1967, Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross, Don Stroud, Kent Smith, Estelle Winwood) – Classic Movie Review 4821
Director Curtis Harrington’s teasing, satisfying 1967 thriller stars James Caan and Katharine Ross as a games-playing, good-time young Manhattan married couple, Paul and Jennifer Montgomery, who take in to their posh home a foreign door-to-door […]
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? *** (1972, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 4819
Director Curtis Harrington’s bizarre 1972 British horror thriller is his entertaining follow-up to his 1971 What’s the Matter with Helen? and reunites him with one of its stars, Shelley Winters, who plays dotty old Auntie […]