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Out of Season *** (1975, Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George) – Classic Movie Review 6277

Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson and Susan George spark the drama in the smart British 1975 romantic triangle film Out of Season, set in an English winter resort. Director Alan Bridges’s smart, sensitive and atmospheric but […]

Nov, 21

Sextette * (1978, Mae West, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Dom DeLuise, Timothy Dalton, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 6225

Director Ken Hughes’s 1978 trainwreck of a film is the ludicrous final fling by an 85-year-old Mae West, acting out a story based on her own play about an ageing love goddess called Marlo Manners, […]

Nov, 10

Dirty Pretty Things **** (2002, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo) – Classic Movie Review 6104

Director Stephen Frears’s 2002 British crime drama thriller is one of his successes. Chiwetel Ejiofor shines as Okwe, an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London working both as a cabbie and in a hotel, in Stephen Frears’s […]

Oct, 17

Separate Tables *** (1983, Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Claire Bloom, Irene Worth) – Classic Movie Review 5971

Director John Schlesinger’s 1983 Home Box Office TV movie is a particularly well cast, carefully handled and subtly performed remake of the Terence Rattigan twin one-act plays, with a faithful script based on his 1954 […]

Aug, 26

Separate Tables **** (1958, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 5970

The double Oscar-winning 1958 black-and-white drama film Separate Tables is a Hollywood version of Terence Rattigan’s renowned pair of one-act plays about the dramas of guests at an English south coast resort hotel. Director Delbert […]

Aug, 25

The Bellboy *** (1960, Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton) – Classic Movie Review 5949

Writer-producer-director Jerry Lewis’s 1960 comedy The Bellboy also sees him starring as mute bungling bellboy Stanley, who is up to his madcap, pratfall tricks at a famous posh Florida hotel – the Fontainebleau in Miami […]

Aug, 21

Blame it on the Bellboy *** (1992, Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Patsy Kensit) – Classic Movie Review 5914

Debut writer-director Mark Herman’s fast and funny 1992 screwball comedy is amusingly written, briskly directed and feistily performed. Dudley Moore stars in this farcical comedy about three guests with similar names staying at a Venice […]

Aug, 14

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