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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
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They’re a Weird Mob *** (1966, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Alida Chelli, Ed Devereaux, Slim DeGrey, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 5508
Producer-director Michael Powell’s fairly enjoyable, easygoing and good-natured 1966 comedy movie of cultural misunderstandings starts off when an Italian immigrant Nino Culotta (Walter Chiari) arrives Down Under in Australia to take up a job as a […]
Mambo Italiano *** (2003, Luke Kirby, Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno, Peter Miller, Mary Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4264
An Italian-Canadian 20something, Angelo Barberini (Luke Kirby), comes out as gay to his nice Italian immigrant parents (Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno), who are horrified, after he leaves home to share his life with a closety policeman, […]
Learning to Drive ***½ (2014, Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury) – Movie Review
Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley are the driving forces behind director Isabel Coixet’s diverting and attractive romantic comedy drama. I hope they don’t mind me calling them old pros, it’s meant to be a real […]
Concussion **** (2015, Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks) – Movie Review
Will Smith commendably goes for a change of pace, a piece of real acting and a Nigerian accent as real-life accomplished pathologist Dr Bennet Omalu who, while he is working in Pittsburgh, uncovers the terrible […]
The Immigrant **** (1917, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 2536
This now restored 25-minute silent comedy short from 1917 is among writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best work, still clever, touching and above all funny after 100 years. He’s a poor new arrival to America, who endures hardships […]
Panic in the Streets ***** (1950, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 2070
Director Elia Kazan’s thought-provoking New Orleans 1950 film noir chase thriller is sizzlingly raw and realistic. It stars Richard Widmark as a medical-health-official doctor and Paul Douglas as a world-weary police captain who lead a life-or-death […]
A Most Violent Year **** (2014, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks) – Movie Review
Recalling the young Al Pacino, no less, Oscar Isaac gives an electrifying performance as Abel Morales, an ambitious American immigrant who fights to protect his increasingly iffy business and his family during 1981, apparently the most […]