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Un Carnet de Bal [Dance Program] [Life Dances On] ***** (1937, Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Fernandel, Raimu, Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar) – Classic Movie Review 4299

Marie Bell plays Christine Surgère, a newly widowed middle-aged woman obsessed with the memory of a ball she attended at the age of 16. When she finds the dance-card of her youth, she decides to track down […]

Sep, 04

The Wave [Bølgen] **** (2015, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro) – Movie Review

A canny geologist (Kristoffer Joner), his tourist hotel receptionist wife (Ane Dahl Torp) and their teenage son (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) and young daughter are caught in the thick of it when the father discovers that the mountain pass […]

Aug, 11

The Eiger Sanction * (1975, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 4112

Director-star Clint Eastwood slipped in the picturesque but poor-quality 1975 mountain thriller The Eiger Sanction between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). They are two of his finest movies and this is […]

Jul, 31

The Werewolf and the Yeti [La maldición de la bestia] [Night of the Howling Beast] *** (1975, Paul Naschy, Mercedes Molina, Silvia Solar) – Classic Movie Review 3864

Director Miguel Iglesias’s 1975 Spanish shocker is still banned in the UK since 1983 after its inclusion on the Department of Public Prosecutions’ list of 72 video nasties. It has a Spanish 18 and US R […]

Jun, 15

Surviving the Game *** (1994, Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S Dutton, , Gary Busey, F Murray Abraham, John C McGinley, William McNamara) – Classic Movie Review 3524

Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S Dutton, Gary Busey, F Murray Abraham, John C McGinley and William McNamara star in Ernest Dickerson’s robust and entertaining action thriller remake of Richard Connell’s famous prize-winning short story The Most Dangerous Game, which was first published […]

Apr, 04

Green Grass of Wyoming *** (1948, Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 3462

Based on the novel by Mary O’Hara, director Louis King’s colourful 1948 slice of Americana about two families who are rivals in trotting horse racing is cute and charming. The big white stallion Thunderhead causes problems for the […]

Mar, 10

Spencer’s Mountain **** (1963, Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp, Lillian Bronson, Wally Cox) – Classic Movie Review 3415

Based on the novel by Earl Hamner Jr, this wholesome, inspiring 1963 family saga is pleasingly warm-hearted and effortlessly appealing, and proved the template for The Waltons TV series which ran from 1972 to 1981, […]

Feb, 27

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