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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
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- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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My Brother Talks to Horses *** (1947, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Peter Lawford, Beverly Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 11,263
MGM’s 1946 junior-league Damon Runyon-style fantasy comedy My Brother Talks to Horses about a psychic boy called Lewie Penrose (buck-toothed Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, aged nine), who provides dead certs for racehorse gamblers, would have been […]
A Lovely Way to Die ** (1968, Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 10,144
Director David Lowell Rich’s 1968 mystery crime drama A Lovely Way To Die [A Lovely Way to Go] is an interestingly peculiar pot pourri of a film, in which wily district attorney Tennessee Fredericks (Eli […]
Little Miss Marker ** (1980, Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Sara Stimson, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9194
Writer-director Walter Bernstein’s 1980 comedy Little Miss Marker stars an even more grumpy than usual Walter Matthau as Sorrowful Jones, the bookie blessed with a little bundle of cute trouble, The Kid (Sara Stimson), left […]
The Rainbow Jacket ** (1954, Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Edward Underdown) – Classic Movie Review 8663
Director Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios Technicolor sports drama The Rainbow Jacket stars Bill Owen as Sam, an experienced (but not entirely straight) champion jockey, banned from the races, who shows a youngster called Georgie […]
Kentucky *** (1938, Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 7158
Director David Butler’s 1938 Kentucky is simple, clean-cut romantic and sporting drama, but it is still quite good vintage entertainment. There is rivalry at the Kentucky horse-racing farms in this soapy but amusing story of […]
Esther Waters [Sin of Esther Waters] *** (1947, Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton, Mary Clare) – Classic Movie Review 6858
Producer-directors Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud’s 1947 melodrama takes us back to the bad old days of the 19th century when sweet young kitchen maids like Esther Waters (Kathleen Ryan) could be used and abused […]
White Mischief **** (1987, Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 6,406
Joss Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) appeared in more than 130 films and TV shows. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the 1987 film White […]