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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 […]

Jul, 18

The Secret of My Success ** (1965, James Booth, Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones, Honor Blackman, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 8,711

The 1965 British movie The Secret of My Success stars James Booth as a naïve copper who runs into romantic tangles. Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones and Honor Blackman also star in an episodic black comedy […]

Jul, 15

Antony and Cleopatra ** (1972, Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle, Fernando Rey, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8700

Director Charlton Heston’s 1972 Antony and Cleopatra gives Heston his chance to play Marc Antony in this school-play-type film version of the Shakespearean tragedy. Heston looks noble and is full of enthusiasm but is unsubtle […]

Jul, 12

London Belongs to Me [Dulcimer Street] **** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8642

Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]

Jun, 26

Night Watch *** (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 8625

The 1973 horror mystery thriller film Night Watch is a plush, suspenseful version of Lucille Fletcher’s stage chiller. Elizabeth Taylor is on top hysterical form as a rich wife convinced she has witnessed a murder […]

Jun, 22

The Man Who Turned to Stone ** (1957, Victor Jory, William Hudson, Charlotte Austin) – Classic Movie Review 8583

‘Incredible revelations from the blackest chapters of unholy medicine!’ Director László [Leslie] Kardos’s wonderfully awful and splendidly bizarre 1957 schlock sci-fi-horror classic The Man Who Turned to Stone finds some 300-year-old undead scientists, organised by […]

Jun, 12

The Lawyer *** (1970, Barry Newman, Harold Gould, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert) – Classic Movie Review 8,550

Co-writer/ producer/ director Sidney J Furie’s entertaining 1970 crime drama mystery movie The Lawyer inspired the Seventies TV show Petrocelli, with Barry Newman creating the role of pushy Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer Tony Petrocelli, practising in […]

Jun, 04

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