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Tales That Witness Madness ** (1973, Donald Pleasence, Jack Hawkins, Georgia Brown, Donald Houston, Russell Lewis, David Wood, Suzy Kendall, Peter McEnery, Joan Collins, Michael Jayston, Kim Novak) – Classic Movie Review 3113

‘It happens beyond madness – where your mind won’t believe what your eyes see.’ The follow-up to Vault of Horror (1973), director Freddie Francis’s 1973 all-star British horror movie is a shaky Amicus portmanteau film […]

Nov, 29

Mandy [Crash of Silence] ***** (1952, Jack Hawkins, Mandy Miller, Terence Morgan, Phyllis Calvert, Godfrey Tearle, Marjorie Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 2820

Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]

Aug, 16

Touch and Go ** (1955, Jack Hawkins, Margaret Johnston, June Thorburn, John Fraser, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt, James Hayter) – Classic Movie Review 2782

Director Michael Truman’s very minor 1955 Ealing Studios comedy Touch and Go is patchy but mildly funny and pleasant enough. The film failed to charm the critics or the public and is not regarded as […]

Aug, 04

The Lodger [The Phantom Fiend] *** (1932, Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A W Baskcomb, Barbara Everest, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 2640

Re-creating his role from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent classic, Ivor Novello plays a mysterious stranger who may, or may not, be a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer, in the 1932 British film The Lodger. Ivor […]

Jun, 26

Zulu ***** (1964, Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Michael Caine, James Booth, Nigel Green, Ulla Jacobsson) – Classic Movie Review 2,373

Cy Endfield’s thrillingly staged 1964 real-life historical action adventure movie Zulu is a much-loved, bona fide British classic of the era. Michael Caine is cast against type as an offhand aristocratic officer in the film […]

Apr, 10

Oh! What a Lovely War **** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1863

  For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]

Nov, 22

The Fallen Idol ***** (1948, Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel) – Classic Movie Review 1835

Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]

Nov, 12

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