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- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
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Posts Tagged "immigrant"
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Alamo Bay **** (1985, Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen) – Classic Movie Review 9204
Director Louis Malle tackles the meaty socially conscious theme of racial conflict between Vietnamese immigrants and a fishing bay town community in Texas in his 1985 drama Alamo Bay. The telling of the story, inspired […]
Spanglish **** (2004, Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 8447
Writer-director James L Brooks’ enjoyable and edgy 2004 rom-com drama Spanglish manages rare bite, truth and humour – and is just that little bit different. Adam Sandler makes a very good job indeed of a […]
I Remember Mama **** (1948, Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 7192
Director George Stevens’s warm-hearted 1948 black-and-white classic household drama I Remember Mama stars Oscar nominated Irene Dunne as careful Norwegian-born Mama, who struggles to make ends meet in turn-of-the-last-century San Francisco (it is around 1910). Stevens’s […]
Romance in Manhattan *** (1935, Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl) – Classic Movie Review 6959
Director Stephen Roberts’s 1935 comedy/romance film is the Green Card of its day in its story that has a hapless foreigner, Karel Novak (Francis Lederer), a naive Czech immigrant, who arrives at Ellis Island in New […]
As the Earth Turns ** (1934, Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Russell Hardie) – Classic Movie Review 6809
Director Alfred E Green’s 1934 Warner Bros movie tells the stout-hearted tale of trials and tribulations of an immigrant family on a Maine farm, with nice but ambitious Polish immigrant Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) fighting against the […]
Music Box **** (1989, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest) – Classic Movie Review 6666
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1989 thriller Music Box stars Jessica Lange as successful American attorney Ann Talbot, who is shocked and devastated when her loving, hardworking, patriotic Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused […]
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 […]