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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
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Three Came Home *** (1950, Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Desmond) – Classic Movie Review 11,360
Claudette Colbert abandons makeup and diets for the real-life internment camp drama Three Came Home (1950). Real-life abused writer Agnes Newton Keith’s autobiographical account of her internment by the Japanese in World War Two and […]
A Majority of One * (1961, Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton) – Classic Movie Review 11,224
‘Most honorable screen smash!’ ‘That joyful hit of the stage is the big, bright delight of the screen.’ ‘It’s even funnier than the play!’ ‘The heart-warmingest picture under the rising sun! The happiest pairing of […]
An Autumn Afternoon [Sanma no aji] **** (1962, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada) – Classic Movie Review 9672
Yasujirô Ozu’s elegant and elegiac final film An Autumn Afternoon (1962) serves as a fine epitaph for one of the world’s great directors. In the autumn of his life, Yasujirô Ozu directed the elegant and […]
Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] ***** (1953, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura) – Classic Movie Review 9669
The 1953 Japanese drama Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] is the glowing masterpiece that finally established the reputation of its director Yasujirô Ozu outside Japan. Quietly devastating, it is a moving and detailed study of the […]
The Bushido Blade ** (1981, Richard Boone, Toshirô Mifune, Frank Converse, Mike Starr) – Classic Movie Review 9498
‘BUSHIDO means revenge – BUSHIDO means bloodshed – BUSHIDO means violent death!’ Director Tsugunobu [Tom] Kotani’s 19th-century-set Kung Fu action thriller The Bushido Blade [The Bloody Bushido Blade](1981) stars Richard Boone as Commodore Matthew Perry, […]
Black Rain **** (1989, Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura) – Classic Movie Review 9417
The 1989 neo noir action crime movie Black Rain is a thoroughly involving, beautifully crafted cop thriller from Ridley Scott, who lifts a serviceably routine plot into an exciting movie. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia […]
Alone on the Pacific **** (1963, Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka) – Classic Movie Review 9076
Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 Japanese adventure classic Alone on the Pacific [Taiheiyô Hitoribotchi] [My Enemy the Sea] stars Yûjirô Ishihara as Kenichi Horie, a young man who defies his parents, the authorities and the sea […]