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Ladies of Leisure *** (1930, Barbara Stanwyck, Lowell Sherman, Ralph Graves) – Classic Movie Review 6778

Barbara Stanwyck plays a typical Thirties wisecracking, gold-digging model girl, in her first film with frequent director Frank Capra, the romantic drama Ladies of Leisure (1930). ‘ALL DIALOG DRAMA OF NEW YORK’S NITE LIFE. Zippy, […]

Mar, 07

BUtterfield 8 ** (1960, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 6417

Elizabeth Taylor won the 1961 Best Actress Oscar as Gloria Wandrous, a beautiful New York fashion model and classy call girl with problems, in director Daniel Mann’s 1960 drama based on the novel by John […]

Dec, 17

Van Gogh *** (1991, Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Gérard Séty, Bernard Le Coq, Corinne Bourdon, Elsa Zylberstein) – Classic Movie Review 6054

A complex, deeply humane portrayal by Alexandra Dutronc brings the troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh to life in writer-director Maurice Pialat’s meticulous and supremely detailed 1992 French historical biopic that places the end of the […]

Oct, 03

The Sentinel * (1977, Cristina Raines, Ava Gardner, Chris Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 6033

Co-writer/ director Michael Winner’s thoroughly distasteful 1976 horror film is a bit of a ferocious farrago, a muddled mixture and a horror hodgepodge. Obviously, as it is Michael Winner, we are not expecting any subtlety. It is based […]

Sep, 19

Separate Tables *** (1983, Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Claire Bloom, Irene Worth) – Classic Movie Review 5971

Director John Schlesinger’s 1983 Home Box Office TV movie is a particularly well cast, carefully handled and subtly performed remake of the Terence Rattigan twin one-act plays, with a faithful script based on his 1954 […]

Aug, 26

The Love Machine * (1971, John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Jackie Cooper, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 5726

Originally cast star Brian Kelly was critically hurt in a motorcycle accident that left his right arm and leg paralysed in 1970 and John Phillip Law stepped into his role as oversexed TV personality Robin Stone. News […]

Jul, 07

The Invisible Woman *** (1940, Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 5624

Director A Edward Sutherland’s amusingly silly, quite ingratiating 1941 Universal Studios sci-fi horror comedy stars John Barrymore as the mad professor Gibbs, who invents an invisibility machine and makes a model girl Kitty Carroll (Virginia […]

Jun, 17

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