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Cardboard Cavalier *** (1949 Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood, Mary Clare, Jerry Desmonde, Claude Hulbert, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 8599
Director Walter Forde’s 1949 British black and white comedy Cardboard Cavalier stars the popular stage and vaudeville actor Sid Field, who is on good form in his third and last starring extravaganza, following his debut […]
Les Belles de Nuit [Beauties of the Night] *** (1952, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida) – Classic Movie Review 5711
The dashingly handsome but poor young piano instructor/ composer Claude (Gérard Philipe) takes refuge in transferring memories of the women he meets into reveries of close encounters with gorgeous ladies in historical settings in writer-director […]
Geronimo *** (1962, Chuck Connors, Adam West, Kamala Devi, Pat Conway, Lawrence Dobkin) – Classic Movie Review 5580
Producer-director Arnold Laven’s 1962 Technicolor movie stars Chuck Connors as Apache warrior Geronimo in this caring, pro-Native American Western about the Indian Chief trying to fight back against the US soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Lawrence […]
The Elusive Pimpernel [The Fighting Pimpernel] *** (1950, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 5,503
David Niven makes an affable if not inspired Scarlet Pimpernel (aka British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney) in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s costly, colourful 1950 film The Elusive Pimpernel. David Niven makes an affable if […]
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword * (2017, Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) – Movie Review
Jude Law’s evil Lord Vortigen kills young Arthur’s mum and dad (Eric Bana) and takes over as King. Arthur grows up to be Charlie Hunnam, aka Charlie Hunkam (cue gratuitous naked chest scene), whose aims are (1) survival (well […]
Sebastiane *** (1976, Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Richard Warwick, Donald Dunham, Ken Hicks, Lindsay Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 5021
Writer-directors Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress’s controversial 1976 homoerotic look at the 300 AD life of Saint Sebastian (Leonardo Treviglio) is filmed tastefully entirely in Latin (the world’s only film in this dead language) on […]
Carry On Jack *** (1964, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Jim Dale, Juliet Mills, Cecil Parker, Donald Houston) – Classic Movie Review 2,377
Gerald Thomas’s eighth 1964 Carry On film comedy Carry On Jack comes from the series’s vintage era but manages to assemble only three of the regular team. Director Gerald Thomas’s eighth 1964 Carry On film […]