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The Woman Accused *** (1933, Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Louis Calhern, Jack LaRue) – Classic Movie Review 7350

Director Paul Sloane’s 1933 drama The Woman Accused is a Thirties high-concept movie: a version of a Liberty Magazine’s idea to get 10 renowned authors to write a chapter of a serial without consulting each […]

Jul, 26

Shock *** (1946, Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore) – Classic Movie Review 7257

Director Alfred L Werker’s enjoyable, creepy 1946 film noir thriller Shock sees Vincent Price grabbing his new top-lined billing as the psychopathic psychiatrist Dr Richard Cross who has recently acquired Mrs Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) […]

Jul, 06

Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051

Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]

Jul, 19

Sleuth **** (1972, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, Eve Channing) – Classic Movie Review 4038

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1972 British thriller stars Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, who obviously relishes one of his last major performances as a cuckolded thriller writer who inveigles his wife’s lover (Caine) in for […]

Jul, 17

Mata Hari ** (1985, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 3561

A beautiful, often-naked Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle) stars as the real-life Dutch-born dancer and German spy Mata Hari, in director Curtis Harrington’s interesting sex-obsessed soft-porn 1985 film version of the World War One spy story, with […]

Apr, 13

Conversation Piece [Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno] **** (1974, Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano) – Classic Movie Review 3190

Luchino Visconti’s 1974 penultimate film Conversation Piece is a stately, elegant and affecting fable, reuniting him with his longtime companion Helmut Berger and Burt Lancaster.  Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s penultimate conversation piece movie from 1974 is […]

Dec, 28

Original Sin *** (2001, Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 3025

‘This is not a love story but a story about love.’ Antonio Banderas stars as a Cuban businessman who is completely happy when he takes Angelina Jolie as his mail-order-bride wife. But, soon, it turns […]

Nov, 01

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