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The Face of Fu Manchu **** (1965, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Tsai Chin, Howard Marion-Crawford, James Robertson Justice, Walter Rilla, Joachim Fuchsburger, Karin Dor) – Classic Movie Review 2945

Director Don Sharp’s brisk and entertaining 1965 British-West German crime thriller horror movie is the first and best of five Twenties period thrillers featuring Christopher Lee as Sax Rohmer’s dastardly super-villain character Fu Manchu, who surprisingly […]

Oct, 03

Scott of the Antarctic ***** (1948, John Mills, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2828

Director Charles Frend’s 1948 British historical adventure classic provides the showcase for one of John Mills’s most admired, tightly reined-in heroic performances as the quixotic British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Mills’s great performance brings […]

Aug, 18

Moby Dick *** (1956, Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, Harry Andrews, James Robertson Justice, Bernard Miles, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 2752

Co-writer/director John Huston’s intelligent and entertaining but only half-successful 1956 film version of the legendary Herman Melville classic novel stars Gregory Peck as one-legged ship’s Captain Ahab who obsessively pursues his adversary, the great whale […]

Jul, 29

Doctor in the House **** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, Donald Houston, James Robertson Justice, Muriel Pavlow) – Classic Movie Review 2,691

Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]

Jul, 11

Doctor at Sea *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham, Joan Sims, Brenda de Banzie, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 2690

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1955 British comedy is the welcome second Doctor adventure, more farcical than the first one, Doctor in the House (1954). Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow, this time leaving St Swithin’s […]

Jul, 11

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang **** (1968, Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 2464

Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s 1968 children’s movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang stars Dick Van Dyke as Edwardian inventor Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as his fiancée Truly Scrumptious, who whizz off in their flying, […]

May, 09

A French Mistress *** (1960, Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl, Agnès Laurent) – Classic Movie Review 2117

Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s saucy 1960 comedy A French Mistress stars James Robertson Justice as Robert Martin or ‘Bow Wow’, Cecil Parker as John Crane MA. headmaster of Melbury School, Raymond Huntley as the reverend Edwin Peake, […]

Jan, 26

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