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The Prisoner of Zenda ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Madeleine Carroll, David Niven, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4,650

Ronald Colman stars in the rousing 1937 swashbuckler movie The Prisoner of Zenda – the first sound version and definitive film of Anthony Hope’s classic novel.  Director John Cromwell’s most satisfying and extremely rousing 1937 […]

Nov, 13

The Court Jester ***** (1955, Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Mildred Natwick, Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 4576

The five-star 1955 classic comedy adventure The Court Jester from writer-directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank is the one Danny Kaye film to take with you to a desert island. It is a deliriously carefree […]

Nov, 02

The Black Shield of Falworth **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Barbara Rush, Herbert Marshall, Ian Keith, Rhys Williams, Dan O’Herlihy, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4,540

The 1954 movie The Black Shield of Falworth is an engagingly merry jape, in which Tony Curtis heads a starry cast as the dashingly handsome young Myles Falworth of Crisby Dale, who is in love […]

Oct, 26

Tower of London **** (1939, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O’Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Leo G Carroll, Miles Mander) – Classic Movie Review 4438

Producer-director Rowland V Lee’s stirring 1939 Universal horror movie successfully reworks William Shakespeare’s play Richard III as a rousing Gothic historical chiller, shot by George Robinson in classy black and white. Basil Rathbone stars as […]

Oct, 01

Where the Wild Things Are ***½ (2009, voices Max Records, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Dano) – Classic Movie Review 4418

Maurice Sendak’s tiny classic children’s story – it has only 338 words, giving a film adaptation quite a headache – becomes a lovely, quite gorgeous-looking looking but hugely overblown 2009 movie – thanks to the […]

Sep, 26

La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] ***** (1994, Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virna Lisi, Vincent Perez, Miguel Bosé) – Classic Movie Review 4191

La Reine Margot [Queen Margot] is a riveting French historical melodrama that has its centrepiece as the 24 August 1572 St Barthomew’s Day Massacre, which is chillingly and magnificently staged like the mass revenge slayings in The Godfather. […]

Aug, 17

The Musketeer **** (2001, Justin Chambers, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Catherine Deneuve, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 4002

In 17th century Paris, a peasant boy, young D’Artagnan (Max Dolbey), witnesses the death of his father at the hands of the dastardly villain Febre (Tim Roth) and sets out to join the legendary royal guards […]

Jul, 12

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