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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
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- 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
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Madame Butterfly ** (1932, Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 7342
Director Marion Gering’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Madame Butterfly is an antique curio, but nevertheless an interesting one, and Sylvia Sidney makes something touching of the famous tragic heroine. The normally polished Cary Grant […]
Bataan ** (1943, Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 6997
Director Tay Garnett’s 1943 MGM stars-and-stripes-forever war film about the Japanese killing off a group of 13 GIs left guarding a vital bridge on the Bataan peninsula in 1942, is harrowing but largely unconvincing, even […]
Isle of Dogs **** (2018, voices of Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton) – Movie Review
Writer-producer-director Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated comedy feature is a posh quirky treat – witty, clever and consistently amusing. It is rich and strange, but directly appealing, and, with its beautiful animation, quite the smart-looking art object […]
Dreams [Yume] **** (1990, Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi) – Classic Movie Review 6427
The great Japanese writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s fascinating 1990 fantasy drama film is deeply personal work from the maestro, then aged 80, based on his actual dreams. It was Golden Globe nominated as Best Foreign Language […]
Kagemusha ***** (1980, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu) – Classic Movie Review 6426
The great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa is on commanding form in this thrilling 1980 film from his older age (he was 70) with a story about a 16th-century nobleman who saves the life of a […]
Rhapsody in August [Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî] **** (1991, Sachiko Murasé, Hisashi Igawa, Richard Gere) – Classic Movie Review 6424
Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s small-scale 1991 Japanese film made in his old age at 81 tackles all the big subjects – the bomb, war guilt, forgiveness, life, death, the future and the whole darned thing. Kurosawa’s screenplay […]
In This Corner of the World [Kono sekai no katasumi ni] **** (2016, voice of Rena Nounen) – Movie Review
Co-writer/director Sunao Katabuchi’s extraordinary 2016 anime animation is based on a Manga by Fumiyo Kono. Rena Nounen [Non] provides the voice of Japanese heroine Suzu, who enters into an arranged marriage at the age of 18 in the […]