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Smiles of a Summer Night [Sommarnattens leende] **** (1955, Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand) – Classic Movie Review 3954

Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s enchanting 1955 bitter-sweet story about couples struggling to sort out their complicated romances at a weekend in the country in late-19th century Sweden makes for a delightful and sympathetic movie. There, the ageing […]

Jul, 01

Quality Street *** (1937, Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Fay Bainter, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 3924

Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone star as the 1805 England-set movie’s two lovers, and the quality acting expected of them lights up director George Stevens’s 1937 romance, the second film of J M Barrie’s antique play, following director […]

Jun, 26

The Lost Moment *** (1947, Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 3892

The 1947 film noir-style romantic drama The Lost Moment is an attractively atmospheric oddity, based on Henry James’s 1888 novella The Aspern Papers. It greatly alters the characters and adds schizophrenia, a murder and a […]

Jun, 20

A Shot in the Dark **** (1964, Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Bert Kwouk, Graham Stark, Tracy Reed, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 3770

Director Blake Edwards’s tasty 1964 comedy is the welcome first sequel to The Pink Panther (1963), which finds Peter Sellers on even better form as the bizarrely bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who absurdly believes that the housemaid Maria […]

May, 25

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

House by the River *** (1950, Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 2806

Fritz Lang directs this tense, moody, intriguing and atmospheric 1950 film noir thriller based on the A P Herbert source novel’s story of death, betrayal and obsession. Louis Hayward stars as deranged, unsuccessful author Stephen […]

Aug, 12

The Horror of Frankenstein ** (1970, Ralph Bates, Kate O’Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dave Prowse, Dennis Price, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 2777

Ralph Bates stars in The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) as a reborn Dr Victor Frankenstein, the role having been played by Peter Cushing five times previously in Hammer horror movies. Victor ruthlessly arranges the death […]

Aug, 03

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