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Man in the Attic ** (1953, Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams, Sean McClory, Isabel Jewell) – Classic Movie Review 12,346

Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 thriller mystery film Man in the Attic stars Jack Palance, who is well cast and relishes his meaty role as a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer suspect in this retread of […]

Nov, 24

Just Like a Woman * (1992, Julie Walters, Adrian Pasdar, Paul Freeman, Susan Wooldridge) – Classic Movie Review 12,318

The 1992 British comedy film Just Like a Woman stars Julie Walters as a landlady who falls for her personable new young American lodger (Adrian Pasdar) but soon there is a strange woman on the […]

Sep, 22

My Wife’s Lodger *** (1952, Dominic Roche, Olive Sloane, Leslie Dwyer, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 11,120

With the Rank Organisation £18 million in debt, the studio closed their Charm School for young actors and made Diana Dors redundant in September 1950. But Dors’s film career started to improve when she was […]

Apr, 20

This Is My Street **½ (1964, Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, Avice Landone, Meredith Edwards, Madge Ryan, John Hurt, Mike Pratt) – Classic Movie Review 10,906

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1964 British black and white social realism drama This Is My Street is a fascinating if low-powered slice of South London life starring Ian Hendry as Harry King, a randy, shiftless lodger […]

Feb, 12

Seven Days Leave ** (1930, Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore) – Classic Movie Review 10,176

The young Gary Cooper’s career was boosted when he starred in producer and director Richard Wallace’s 1930 all-talking drama film Seven Days Leave, the early-sound version of J M Barrie’s 1917 play The Old Lady […]

Aug, 13

Danger Signal *** (1945, Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Richard Erdman, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 8938

The 1945 film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal stars the splendidly shifty-looking Zachary Scott as a smooth-talking psychopathic career killer.  Director Robert Florey’s 1945 Warner Bros black and white film noir crime melodrama Danger Signal […]

Sep, 25

Since You Went Away **** (1944, Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Agnes Moorehead, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Guy Madison, Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Nazimova, Hattie McDaniel) – Classic Movie Review 4573

Director John Cromwell’s lavish, star-studded 1944 tearjerker boasts winning performances from the superb cast and a poignant, fragrant whiff of the wartime mid-Forties. Producer David O Selznick’s patriotic tribute to the American home front during […]

Oct, 31

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