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The Sea Hawk ***** (1940, Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Henry Daniell, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3860

The 1940 adventure film The Sea Hawk is a thrilling vintage sea-borne swashbuckler telling a new story based on the exploits of Sir Francis Drake. Errol Flynn is on his finest swashbuckling form as the […]

Jun, 13

All This, and Heaven Too **** (1940, Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O’Neil) – Classic Movie Review 2.741

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 period romantic drama film All This, and Heaven Too provides a gleaming, glorious showcase for Bette Davis, whose hits just came coming in this golden era for her. Charles Boyer provides […]

Jul, 25

Watch on the Rhine **** (1943, Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lucile Watson, George Coulouris, Beulah Bondi, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 2,740

The strong, tense 1943 wartime patriotic thriller film Watch on the Rhine stars Paul Lukas, who won a deserved Best Actor Oscar as a German underground patriot harassed by Hitler’s men in Washington DC. Bette […]

Jul, 25

Jane Eyre **** (1943, Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, Henry Daniell, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2670

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1943 movie is an impressively powerful and moody American version of the Charlotte Brontë classic about the Victorian orphan who becomes a governess in a strange Yorkshire household at Thornfield Hallruled over by […]

Jul, 05

Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576

Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]

Jun, 09

The Body Snatcher **** (1945, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 2390

Director Robert Wise’s 1945 tale of horror in old Edinburgh of 1832 is one of producer Val Lewton’s most celebrated macabre thrillers. It’s very much a work of the legendary Lewton, who co-writes the script, […]

Apr, 16

Lust for Life **** (1958, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2364

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 portrait of the artist offered Kirk Douglas one of his three chances to win an Oscar but in the event he never won and had to be content with an honorary […]

Apr, 06

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