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- The Paper Gallows [Torment] (1950, Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, John Bentley) – Classic Movie Review 13,413
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- Brief Encounter (1974, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 13,411
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- Battle of the V-1 *** (1958, Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, David Knight, Esmond Knight, Christopher Lee, Carl Jaffe, Peter Madden) – Classic Movie Review 13,409
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Love with the Proper Stranger *** (1964, Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4065
Director Robert Mulligan’s 1964 romantic comedy drama pairs Natalie Wood with Steve McQueen in their glorious prime. Wood earned her third and final Oscar nomination, one of five nominations, including Best Original Story and Screenplay (Arnold […]
Breaking Away **** (1979, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) – Classic Movie Review 4034
Best known for his thrillers, British director Peter Yates delivers a triumph with this exhilarating 1979 American comedy, with a smashing lead performance from Dennis Christopher, who deserved to go on to stardom. Christopher plays […]
20 Million Miles to Earth *** (1957, William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Thomas Browne Henry) – Classic Movie Review 3723
A Ray Harryhausen special-effects monster of notable beastliness is the main reason to watch director Nathan Juran’s creaky old 1957 monster movie. William Hopper stars as spaceman Colonel Robert Calder, whose debut Venus-probe spacecraft that […]
Il Divo **** (2008, Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti) – Classic Movie Review 3294
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino’s striking and informative, surreal biopic of controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, showcases an uncanny, quite spooky performance by Toni Servillo as the nonogenarian ‘divine’ who was Italian prime minister seven times between […]
Accattone ***** (1961, Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini) – Classic Movie Review 3272
Franco Citti came to fame at 26 playing the title role in writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1961 Accattone and gives an extremely convincing and winning performance as Vittorio Cataldi, nicknamed Accattone (an Italian slang term meaning […]
Mediterraneo **** (1991, Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti, Ugo Conti) – Classic Movie Review 3087
Director Gabriele Salvatores’s charming, easy-going 1991 Italian movie, dedicated to ‘all those who are running away’, is a highly appealing piece of film-making that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1992. Based on […]
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin ** (2001, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 3085
Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]