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The Wind Cannot Read *** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Yôko Tani, John Fraser, Ronald Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 8200

‘2000 Years of Tradition Said “No!” To Their Love – But Nothing Could Stop It From Happening!’ Director Ralph Thomas’s 1958 British wartime romantic drama The Wind Cannot Read stars Dirk Bogarde at his most […]

Mar, 05

Doctor in Clover ** (1966, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, Joan Sims, John Fraser, Arthur Haynes, Fenella Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 3143

The sixth Doctor film from 1966 has some very rough edges, and plays without series star Dirk Bogarde but with Leslie Phillips as the main star instead, which is not the same thing at all. […]

Dec, 09

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 Dam Busters **** (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1857

Director Michael Anderson’s 1954 true life wartime adventure movie brings the once famous story of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs that blasted open Germany’s crucial Ruhr dams in 1943 to vivid life. At the centre and heart […]

Nov, 18

El Cid **** (1961, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone) – Classic Movie Review 1851

Director Anthony Mann’s 1961 historical epic for producer Samuel Bronston stars Charlton Heston in one of his most famous heroic roles as the 11th-century Spanish warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar – El Cid. Sophia Loren […]

Nov, 17

Repulsion **** (1965, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark) – Classic Movie Review 66

‘I must get this crack mended.’ How can this ever have sounded more sinister? Making his first film in English in 1965, Polish director Roman Polanski comes up with a uniquely chilling, dark and disturbing […]

Jul, 19

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