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The Buttercup Chain * (1970, Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jane Asher, Sven-Bertil Taube, Clive Revill, Roy Dotrice, Michael Elphick) – Classic Movie Review 10,414

Director Robert Ellis Miller’s 1970 romantic drama The Buttercup Chain is a daft, dated tale of kissing cousins and a love chain foursome – unstable France (Hywel Bennett), his depressive close cousin Margaret (Jane Asher), […]

Oct, 14

Love Among the Ruins *** (1975, Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely) – Classic Movie Review 10,372

Director George Cukor’s lovely, prestigious, award-winning 1975 American made-for-TV Edwardian period romantic comedy film Love Among the Ruins stars Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier, who light it up grandly. It premiered on the ABC TV […]

Oct, 01

Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] * (1954, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Mervyn Johns , Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 10,315

Writer-director Renato Castellani’s 1954 UK/Italy film Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] stars Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall as William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Shakespeare’s play is adapted for the screen by Castellani. After a shaky […]

Sep, 16

Le Silence Est d’Or [Man About Town] *** (1947, Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien) – Classic Movie Review 10,236

Set around the turn of the last century (it is 1910), writer/ producer/ director René Clair’s mildly charming 1947 Le Silence Est d’Or [Silence Is Golden] [Man About Town] is his first movie back home […]

Aug, 28

The Teckman Mystery *** (1954, Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Roland Culver, Michael Medwin, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 10,046

Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Roland Culver, Michael Medwin and Duncan Lamont star in the 1954 British black and white film noir Cold War mystery thriller The Teckman Mystery, based on the TV serial by Francis […]

Jul, 16

Scenes from a Marriage [Scener ur ett äktenskap] ***** (1974, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson) – Classic Movie Review 9925

Writer/ director Ingmar Bergman draws on his personal experiences for his 1974 feature Scenes from a Marriage [Scener ur ett äktenskap], the ideally condensed theatrical version of his triumphant six-part 1973 Swedish Television miniseries. Liv […]

Jun, 17

Maria’s Lovers ***½ (1984, Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 9907

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1984 drama Maria’s Lovers is a slow-moving but fascinating look at the effect of World War Two on a returning Yugoslav-American soldier Ivan Bibic (John Savage), who comes home to his Pittsburgh, […]

Jun, 14

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