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- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- 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
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Black Knight ** (2001, Martin Lawrence, Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Greg Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 3644
Martin Lawrence plays an employee at a run-down medieval theme park, who falls, knocks himself out and wakes up in 14th-century England. The star is on fairly zesty form as Jamal Walker / Skywalker in director […]
The Prince and the Pauper [Crossed Swords] *** (1977, Mark Lester, Oliver Reed, Charlton Heston, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 3590
In his last major film to date before he gave up acting, a grown-up Mark Lester (from Oliver!) plays both title roles, Henry VIII’s son Prince Edward and the lookalike urchin, Tom Canty, with whom […]
The Prince and Me ** (2004, Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller, Miranda Richardson, James Fox) – Classic Movie Review 3588
Director Martha Coolidge’s 2004 romcom stars Julia Stiles as US student Paige, who falls in love with her cute classmate Edvard (Luke Mably), little knowing that he’s really a Danish prince, enjoying a private life […]
Tale of Tales [Il racconto dei racconti] **** (2015, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C Reilly, Shirley Henderson) – Movie Review
Co-writer/director Matteo Garrone’s ravishing and often-exhilarating English-language début brilliantly interweaves three Grimm-style adult fairy tales of kings and queens – and monsters! (1) Salma Hayek plays the Queen of Longtrellis who forfeits the life of her husband the […]
The King’s Speech ***** (2010, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 3,311
A whole film about stuttering? Well, put that way, maybe not, thank you. The King’s Speech is, well, rotten. But not the movie, his actual speech. The movie’s astounding. So absolutely, yes please! It’s the […]
Oedipus the King **** (1968, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Orson Welles, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack, Roger Livesey, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 3274
That great actor Christopher Plummer is stupendous as Oedipus in co-writer/director Philip Saville’s brave and imaginative attempt to film the classic Sophocles Greek tragic play. And Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer and Richard Johnson are marvellous also as the doomsayer […]
The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader *** (2010, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes) – Classic Movie Review 3266
Director Michael Apted’s tauter and leaner 2010 third Narnia episode has considerably improved on its predecessors on the adventure front, with more imaginative and appealing special effects, music, cinematography and sets this time. Staying reasonably close […]