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Lady Caroline Lamb ** (1972, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain) – Classic Movie Review 9969

Distinguished screenwriter Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan’s Daughter) got his chance to direct his wife Sarah Miles in this British 1972 historical romance Lady Caroline Lamb about Lady Caroline Lamb’s brief affair with Lord […]

Jun, 28

In Search of the Castaways *** (1962, Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 8291

‘A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!’ ‘An Earthquake of Entertainment!’ ‘Only Walt Disney could tell this incredible Jules Verne adventure!’ Walt Disney’s second raid on Jules Verne (after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) boasts a […]

Mar, 24

The Admirable Crichton [Paradise Lagoon] **** (1957, Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 7,757

Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker and Sally Ann Howes star in director Lewis Gilbert’s amusing 1957 British south seas adventure comedy romance film The Admirable Crichton, based on J M Barrie’s 1902 play. Director […]

Nov, 05

Thirteen at Dinner *** (1985, Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet, Jonathan Cecil, Bill Nighy, Diane Keen, John Stride, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7,207

Peter Ustinov is very welcome back in one of his six appearances as Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in the 1985 film Thirteen at Dinner, a TV movie version of Christie’s novel Lord Edgware […]

Jun, 22

Darby O’Gill and the Little People **** (1959, Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O’Dea, Kieron Moore, Estelle Winwood, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O’Dea) – Classic Movie Review 6916

Disney’s superlative 1959 children’s film Darby O’Gill and the Little People is an often inspired mix of warm Irish charm and sly Gaelic hokum. Cubby Broccoli saw and liked Sean Connery in this movie and […]

Apr, 13

The Shooting Party **** (1985, James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud, Gordon Jackson, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Hardy, Frank Windsor, Rupert Frazer, Judi Bowker) – Classic Movie Review 6278

Edwardian barrister Lionel Stephens (Rupert Frazer) engages with renowned sportsman Lord Gilbert Hartlip (Edward Fox) in an escalating contest over who can shoot the most game in director Alan Bridges’s rich and rewarding 1985 British […]

Nov, 21

A Good Woman *** (2004, Helen Hunt, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Scarlett Johansson) – Classic Movie Review 6058

Director Mike Barker’s fourth screen version of the 1892 classic play Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde is excellent and underrated, propelled by a superb performance by an ideally cast Helen Hunt as the infamous femme fatale Mrs Erlynne. Of the British team, Stephen […]

Oct, 04

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