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The Count of Monte Cristo *** (1975, Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard, Donald Pleasence, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 3004

A dashing Richard Chamberlain swashes a merry buckle as Edmond Dantès, falsely sentenced to incarceration for life in the scary Chateau D’If jail, in screenwriter Sidney Carroll’s conscientious, literate and fairly faithful adaptation of the […]

Oct, 21

Swamp Thing *** (1982, Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise) – Classic Movie Review 2871

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1982 cult horror comic movie, based on Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson‘s D C Comic book characters, is reasonably engaging and amusing. Ray Wise stars as a research scientist Dr Alec Holland, […]

Aug, 31

The Man in the Iron Mask **** (1977, Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2320

The dashing Richard Chamberlain swashes a fine buckle in director Mike Newell’s rousing 1977 British TV movie remake of the Alexandre Dumas père classic. It was released in cinemas in a number of countries, including Denmark, Hungary, East Germany […]

Mar, 28

Can-Can ***½ (1959, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 2179

Director Walter Lang’s 1960 musical stars Frank Sinatra as a French attorney called François Durnais who talks his old judge buddy Paul Barriere (Maurice Chevalier) into trying to stop the gendarmes closing his girlfriend Simone […]

Feb, 17

Gigi **** (1958, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold) – Classic Movie Review 2178

Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 musical Gigi, with exactly the right stars in Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, was a huge hit and a surprise sensation at the Academy Awards. It is […]

Feb, 16

Octopussy *** (1983, Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Steven Berkoff, Vijay Amritraj, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi) – Classic Movie Review 698

Gizmos and gadgets take first place in the Roger Moore 1983 James Bond film Octopussy, but the humour is quite a lot of fun and there is plenty of action and adventure. Directed by John […]

Jan, 17

The Paradine Case **** (1947, Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Alida Valli, Louis Jourdan, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 442

Based on the 1933 novel by Robert Smythe Hichens, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1947 American film The Paradine Case is a twisty, talky and stagey but oddly compelling courtroom thriller, with an excellent cast of stars in […]

Nov, 23

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