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Miracle in Soho * (1957, John Gregson, Belinda Lee, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,222

Director Julian Amyes’s 1957 Eastman Color romantic drama Miracle in Soho is set in a central London fictional Soho street called St Anthony’s Lane, where a team of road workers arrives to dig up the […]

May, 19

Murder by Proxy [Blackout] ** (1954, Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies) – Classic Movie Review 11,082

‘EXPLODES… in a sinister network of evil!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1954 British film noir crime drama Murder by Proxy [Blackout] stars Dane Clark and Belinda Lee. The story, based on Helen Nielsen’s novel Murder by […]

Apr, 08

Penny and the Pownall Case ** (1948, Ralph Michael, Peggy Evans, Diana Dors, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,878

Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]

Feb, 04

Scandal **** (1989, John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey) – Classic Movie Review 10,821

The 1989 drama Scandal is a major British film about the 1963 Profumo sex, spies and politics scandal, with superb performances by John Hurt as bon-viveur osteopath Dr Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as exotic […]

Jan, 22

Five Days [Paid to Kill] ** (1954, Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter, Anthony Forwood, Thea Gregory) – Classic Movie Review 10,648

Director Montgomery Tully’s 1954 British black and white film Five Days [Paid to Kill] is a moody, gloomy, and decently plotted crime thriller, with a goodish cast to make it work. This twisty, atmospheric British film […]

Dec, 11

Appointment in London *** (1953, Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 10,342

Director Philip Leacock’s just above-par 1952 story of a wartime bomber mission Appointment in London stars Dirk Bogarde as war-shocked, insubordinate British officer Wing Commander Tim Mason, who takes off in 1943 on a risky […]

Sep, 23

Portrait of Alison *** (1955, Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 10,255

Director Guy Green’s 1955 black and white British mystery crime film Portrait of Alison [Postmark for Danger] is an amazingly convoluted and satisfyingly entertaining whodunit thriller, based on Francis Durbridge’s popular Fifties TV serial, about […]

Sep, 01

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