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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
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Good Morning Babylon [Good Morning Babilonia] **** (1987, Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance) – Classic Movie Review 9744
Charles Dance steals the 1987 show Good Morning Babylon as movie pioneer director D W Griffith in a charming homage to silent film-making from Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani, the Italian heavyweight directors responsible for […]
Everybody’s Fine [Stanno Tutti Bene] **** (1990, Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli) – Classic Movie Review 9732
Marcello Mastroianni’s certainly fine as Matteo Scuro, a retired old Sicilian bureaucrat who travels to mainland Italy to check what’s happened to his five kids, and is lied to by them to conceal the trouble […]
Au-delà des grilles [Le mura di Malapaga] [The Walls of Malapaga] **** (1949, Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi) – Classic Movie Review 9673
War-torn Italian slums in Genoa provide a stable background for director René Clément’s moving depiction of a tragic encounter between Pierre Arrignon (Jean Gabin), a French fugitive killer pursued by the law, and a frustrated […]
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man [La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo] **** (1981, Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante) – Classic Movie Review 9406
There is a fine mix of the personal and the political in writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s distinguished, carefully studied inquiry into the use of terror by and against the state, and sharply relevant comment on the […]
Don Camillo’s Last Round *** (1955, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Claude Sylvain) – Classic Movie Review 9355
The great, droll French comic Fernandel again greatly amuses as the eccentric small-village Italian Roman Catholic priest Don Camillo, who this time tries to prevent his friendly opponent, Giuseppe ‘Peppone’ Bottazzi (Gino Cervi), the little […]
The Little World of Don Camillo [Don Camillo] **** (1952, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi, Sylvie) – Classic Movie Review 9353
Director Julien Duvivier’s delightful, light-hearted 1952 French-Italian comedy The Little World of Don Camillo [Don Camillo] [Le petit monde de Don Camillo] stars the always-excellent Fernandel on his most exuberant and engaging form as Don […]
The Saracen Blade ** (1954, Ricardo Montalban, Betta St John, Rick Jason, Carolyn Jones,Michael Ansara) – Classic Movie Review 9107
‘Twenty lashes don’t do any good. Give him [Pietro] thirty.’ – Haroun (Leonard Penn). Director William Castle’s 1954 romantic adventure The Saracen Blade is based on Frank Yerby’s novel and stars Ricardo Montalban as Pietro […]