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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- 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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Driving Miss Daisy **** (1989, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 7047
Director Bruce Beresford’s 1989 comedy drama is based on his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play by screen-writer Alfred Uhry and triumphed at the box office (it took $106 million in the US) and at the Academy […]
Avalon *** (1990, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Kevin Pollak) – Classic Movie Review 6408
Writer-director Barry Levinson’s 50-year saga of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in Baltimore is warmly acted by a strong cast, looks superb thanks to cinematographer Allen Daviau and is quite involving and entertaining. It was nominated […]
Every Time We Say Goodbye ** (1986, Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 6179
Co-writer/ director Moshe Mizrahi’s simple, easy-going, slightly sudsy 1986 romantic movie stars Tom Hanks as David, an eager American World War Two wartime flier who joins the RAF and is recovering in Jerusalem after a leg […]
Bugsy **** (1991, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Elliott Gould) – Classic Movie Review 6060
Warren Beatty stars in director Barry Levinson’s exciting, lovingly crafted 1991 mob crime thriller Bugsy as real-life charming but psychotic Forties gangster Benjamin (‘Bugsy’) Siegel, sent by Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) to control the rackets […]
Crossing Delancey **** (1988, Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 5804
Amy Irving stars as Izzy, a modern single 30-something who lives alone in her smart New York apartment, works in a bookshop and has lots of female friends and a Jewish grandmother who gets the matchmaker […]
The House of Rothschild ***½ (1934, George Arliss, Loretta Young, Boris Karloff, Robert Young, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 5638
Director Alfred L Werker’s extravagantly produced 1934 saga tells of the rise of the Jewish banking family in 19th-century France and the Rothschild financial empire, inherited by his five sons, which helps to finance the war […]
The Jazz Singer * (1952, Danny Thomas, Peggy Lee, Eduard Franz, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 5027
‘It’s joy set to music. A story that sings out to your heart.’ Well, maybe, but more probably maybe not. Danny Thomas steps into Al Jolson’s singing shoes for Michael Curtiz’s slushy 1952 second film […]