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Liliom **** (1934, Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux) – Classic Movie Review 3423

Ferenc Molnár’s play is beautifully remade in France by Fritz Lang, only four years after Frank Borzage’s 1930 film with Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. The young Charles Boyer is ideal as the Budapest carnival […]

Feb, 28

Gidget *** (1959, Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O’Connell, Mary LaRoche) – Classic Movie Review 3,384

Sandra Dee stars in director Paul Wendkos’s wholesome-as-apple-pie 1959 teen comedy film Gidget, as young Francie Lawrence aka the Gidget, who is initiated into the California surf culture during one formative summer. As a result, […]

Feb, 19

The Barefoot Contessa **** (1954, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 3365

Writer-producer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1954 Oscar-winning drama stars Humphrey Bogart as film-maker Harry Dawes, who moulds shoeless gypsy flamenco dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) into a movie legend, after seeing her in a Madrid club. […]

Feb, 15

A Place in the Sun **** (1951, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 3351

Director George Stevens’s then daring 1951 film of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy was once greatly acclaimed and admired but now it has faded and is unfairly overlooked. The overfree screenplay is based on […]

Feb, 13

Othello [Отелло] **** (1956, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov) – Classic Movie Review 3342

Director Sergei Yutkevich’s imaginatively filmed, handsome looking, intellectually minded 1956 Russian version of the play by William Shakespeare is the first in colour and stars the great Sergei Bondarchuk, who goes the route of playing […]

Feb, 08

Othello **** (1965, Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 3,339

Stage director John Dexter’s legendary acclaimed Chichester Festival and National Theatre of Great Britain production of Othello is plainly transferred to film by director Stuart Burge, but it is nevertheless a compelling experience. It records […]

Feb, 08

Imitation of Life **** (1959, Lana Turner, Juanita Moore, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Dan O’Herlihy, Robert Alda, Mahalia Jackson, Troy Donahue, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 3249

Lana Turner stars in one of her most famous roles as struggling young white actress Lora Meredith and Juanita Moore plays her black maid Annie Johnson. Director Douglas Sirk’s classic 1959 tearjerker melodrama is a […]

Jan, 08

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