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Cottage To Let [Bombsight Stolen] **** (1941, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John Mills, George Cole, Jeanne De Casalis, Michael Wilding) – Classic Movie Review 2785

Director Anthony Asquith’s 1941 British movie stars George Cole, in his film debut at 16 as Ronald, a young cockney who is evacuated to a Scottish village, always a hotbed of Nazis in the movies […]

Aug, 07

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery *** (1939, Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 2455

Leslie Banks gives a good, solid and splendidly offbeat star performance as Detective Inspector Anthony Slade, an oddball Scotland Yard policeman, in director Thorold Dickinson’s fair, fun 1939 little British murder mystery thriller. It is notable as […]

May, 04

The Most Dangerous Game [The Hounds of Zaroff] ***** (1932, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 1,724

The chilling 1932 horror thriller film The Most Dangerous Game stars an inspired Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, who arranges for a ship to be wrecked on his remote island to enjoy hunting and killing […]

Sep, 30

Jamaica Inn *** (1939, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Marie Ney, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 390

Even if you think of the 1939 pirate malarkey adventure Jamaica Inn as a period whodunit, director Alfred Hitchcock is way off his usual territory with such melodramatic costume drama hokum based Daphne du Maurier’s […]

Nov, 10

The Man Who Knew Too Much **** (1934, Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay) – Classic Movie Review 242

The 1934 first of Alfred Hitchcock’s two highly entertaining versions of his suspense thriller spy story boasts a nimble, fast-paced spring in its step, along with several of his finest suspense sequences, a great quirky sense of […]

Sep, 14

Henry V ***** (1944, Laurence Olivier, Renée Asherson, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Esmond Knight, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 138

Laurence Olivier’s inspired and stirring version of the popular historical play by William Shakespeare is a personal triumph for him, a highlight of his life and career. It’s the definitive and classic movie of the […]

Aug, 08

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