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Apartment Zero ** (1988, Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 10,485

Colin Firth stars as Adrian LeDuc, an uptight, lonely British movie fan who is forced to rent his insane mother’s room and accepts a strange American seducer, Jack Carney (Hart Bochner), as a house-guest in […]

Oct, 30

The Deep End of the Ocean ** (1999, Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 9981

Director Ulu Grosbard’s 1999 true story child abduction drama The Deep End of the Ocean is based on the book Jacquelyn Mitchard, and stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams and Whoopi Goldberg. Michelle Pfeiffer finds herself […]

Jun, 30

Go Naked in the World * (1961, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 9903

Writer-director Ranald MacDougall’s 1961 film Go Naked in the World might have worked as a frothy comedy in the 1930s, but not as romantic drama in 1961, and the result is a leaden concoction with […]

Jun, 13

Iron Will *** (1994, Mackenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers) – Classic Movie Review 9516

Director Charles Haid’s 1994 adventure drama Iron Will stars Mackenzie Astin (brother of Sean Astin) as Will Stoneman, an American farm boy who bids to win a 500-mile dog sled race to get the money […]

Mar, 16

Captain Boycott *** (1947, Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 9467

Irish farmers break off the yoke of the wicked English landlords, in co-writer/ co-producer/ director Frank Launder’s fair Victorian historical drama, Captain Boycott (1947), set in 1880. It is strongly cast, though Stewart Granger (as […]

Mar, 06

Of Human Hearts *** (1938, Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 9157

MGM’s 1938 emotional celebration of America and family life Of Human Hearts is set in an Ohio town during the American Civil War, and stars James Stewart as Jason Wilkins, the wayward son of poor […]

Dec, 14

The Card [The Promoter] *** (1952, Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Petula Clark, Valerie Hobson, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 8597

Director Ronald Neame’s 1952 British black and white comedy The Card [The Promoter] stars Alec Guinness, who comes up trumps (did he ever give a poor performance?) as opportunist entrepreneur Edward Henry ‘Denry’ Machin, the […]

Jun, 16

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