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Le Plaisir [House of Pleasure] **** (1952, Claude Dauphin, Jean Galland, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon, Jean Gabin) – Classic Movie Review 11,789

Director Max Ophüls’s 1952 black and white French comedy-drama anthology film Le Plaisir [House of Pleasure] is his delightful adaptation of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant linked by the theme of pleasure. It […]

Dec, 14

Flesh and Fantasy *** (1943, Edward G Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Benchley, Charles Winninger, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,859

Director Julien Duvivier’s 1943 black and white Flesh and Fantasy is a fantasy anthology film of three polished tales of the macabre, linked by club chatterer Robert Benchley, who muses amusingly on the subject of […]

Jan, 31

Mr Sardonicus *** (1961, Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oscar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff) – Classic Movie Review 10,389

Showman producer-director William Castle’s 1961 horror mystery thriller Mr Sardonicus stars Ronald Lewis, Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton and Oscar Homolka, and is an effective and entertaining chiller in which a doctor gets a mysterious invitation […]

Oct, 07

Paper Mask **** (1990, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Frederick Treves) – Classic Movie Review 9950

Director Christopher Morahan’s 1990 film Paper Mask stars Paul McGann as ambitious male nurse Matthew Harris, a humble hospital worker who assumes the identity of a young doctor killed in a car crash, and lands […]

Jun, 23

The Eagle **** (1925, Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser) – Classic Movie Review 9243

For his penultimate film, director Clarence Brown’s 1925 The Eagle, Rudolph Valentino plays Lieutenant Vladimir Dubrovsky, a Russian Cossack officer who disguises himself as an outlaw called The Black Eagle to avenge his father’s murder. […]

Jan, 09

Halloween *** (2018, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Haluk Bilginer, Will Patton) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween reboot is good, intense, suspenseful and scary, a solid horror thriller, but no knockout. It has no new story to tell – how could it? – but it […]

Oct, 26

The Funhouse *** (1981, Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Miles Chapin, Cooper Huckabee, Sylvia Miles, Shawn Carson, Jeanne Austin) – Classic Movie Review 5985

Directed by Tobe Hooper’s effectively nightmarish, teen-aimed 1981 American slasher horror film stars Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff and Sylvia Miles, with Shawn Carson and Jeanne Austin. The film’s plot, in the […]

Aug, 28

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