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Gribouille [Heart of Paris] **** (1937, Raimu, Michèle Morgan, Gilbert Gil, Jeanne Provost, Julien Carette, Jean Worms, Andrex) – Classic Movie Review 10,925
Marc Allégret’s 1937 film Gribouille [Heart of Paris] is a minor classic from the French golden age, with Raimu starring as Camille Morestan, the juror who takes pity on a woe-begone innocent acquitted of murder. […]
Seven Beauties [Pasqualino Settebellezze] **** (1975, Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler) – Classic Movie Review 10,894
Writer-producer-director Lina Wertmuller’s very extreme, disturbing and bizarre tale of sadomasochism, the 1975 Italian film Seven Beauties [Pasqualino Settebellezze], focuses on the life of an Italian crook and lothario called Pasqualino or Pasquale Frafuso (the […]
The Dock Brief [Trial and Error] *** (1962, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid, David Lodge, Frank Pettingell) – Classic Movie Review 8731
John Mortimer’s witty one-act radio, then theatre play about an accused man named Fowle (Richard Attenborough), who is freed of murdering his wife because of his bungling barrister Morgenhall (Peter Sellers), makes a so-so film […]
The Young Savages *** (1961, Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 8519
Director John Frankenheimer’s second movie The Young Savages (following The Young Stranger in 1957) is a smartly handled, sincere courtroom drama with a lot of social conscience and a small slice of romance. Burt Lancaster […]
Stranger on the Third Floor **** (1940, Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8251
The 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor is a classic film noir thriller where menace lurks in every shadow and stairway. Peter Lorre stars as the sinister Stranger, whom a reporter (John McGuire) suspects has […]
The Boys *** (1962, Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) – Classic Movie Review 7581
Director Sidney J Furie’s inventive direction and some then fresh faces (Dudley Sutton, Jess Conrad, Ronald Lacey, Tony Garnett) are the main pleasures of the interesting youth-oriented 1962 British courtroom drama The Boys, which was […]
The Outrage ** (1964, Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G Robinson, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 6355
Though by no means an outrage, director Martin Ritt’s 1964 Western is a misguided attempt to relocate Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Japanese classic Rashomon to the American Southwest in the 1870s, with four people telling their widely […]