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The Greene Murder Case **** (1929, William Powell, Florence Eldredge, Ullrich Haupt, Jean Arthur, Eugene Pallette, E H Calvert) – Classic Movie Review 11,313

‘PHILO VANCE Solves Another Sensational Mystery!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1929 mystery thriller talking picture The Greene Murder Case is produced and released by Paramount Pictures and stars William Powell in his second appearance (of four) […]

Jun, 16

Temptation *** (1946, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas) Classic Movie Review 9918

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 black and white film noir thriller Temptation stars Merle Oberon as bored housewife Ruby, an 1890s London shady lady who moves to Egypt and swaps her dull archaeologist husband Nigel Armine […]

Jun, 16

A Good Woman *** (2004, Helen Hunt, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Scarlett Johansson) – Classic Movie Review 6058

Director Mike Barker’s fourth screen version of the 1892 classic play Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde is excellent and underrated, propelled by a superb performance by an ideally cast Helen Hunt as the infamous femme fatale Mrs Erlynne. Of the British team, Stephen […]

Oct, 04

Mr North *** (1988, Anthony Edwards, Anjelica Huston, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 5116

Miracles, magic and mayhem are on the menu for Danny Huston’s 1988 film version of Thornton Wilder’s novel Theophilus North, which he crafts into a charming, amiable and likeable entertainment. Anthony Edwards stars as Mr […]

Mar, 07

Pygmalion **** (1938, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4945

Pygmalion? It was one of Shaw’s. And he won an Oscar! Directors Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s 1938 British version of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion about the English speech-study professor who plots to […]

Jan, 26

The House of Mirth **** (2000, Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Laura Linney, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron) – Classic Movie Review 2,810

Gillian Anderson gives a knockout performance as the romantic but eventually tragic Lily Bart, in British director Terence Davies’s exquisite 2000 film adaptation of the early-20th-century-set novel by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. One […]

Aug, 14

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