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Goodbye Gemini (1970, Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 8178

Goodbye Gemini (1970) ended up listed as a video nasty. Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play Chelsea teenage sister and brother twins up to their pretty necks in a pretty offensive plot. Director Alan Gibson’s […]

Feb, 27

Gunn *** (1967, Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 8133

Co-writer/ director Blake Edwards’s satisfying 1967 thriller Gunn is the tough cinema feature movie of his TV series Peter Gunn (1958-61), with Craig Stevens repeating his smooth laconic Cary Grant-style performance as the suave, stylishly […]

Feb, 15

Home at Seven [Murder on Monday] *** (1952, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Meriel Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 8121

Director Ralph Richardson’s 1952 Home at Seven [retitled Murder on Monday in the US] is a fairly compelling amnesia mystery with a theft and a murder occurring during the 24 hours a bank clerk, David […]

Feb, 12

The Third Secret ** (1964, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Pamela Franklin, Rachel Kempson, Diane Cilento Margaret Leighton, Paul Rogers, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 8000

Director Charles Crichton’s 1964 The Third Secret is a muddled and ponderous suspense thriller that is comprised of a number of short stories joined together by the plot device of having a prominent psychiatrist’s daughter […]

Jan, 11

Death at Broadcasting House *** [Death at a Broadcast] (1934, Ian Hunter, Austin Trevor, Henry Kendall, Jack Hawkins, Donald Wolfit, Elizabeth Welch) – Classic Movie Review 7994

Director Reginald Denham’s light-hearted 1934 British mystery thriller Death at Broadcasting House [Death at a Broadcast] is a sprightly BBC radio murder mystery in which an actor is strangled while broadcasting at Broadcasting House, the BBC’s […]

Jan, 09

The Ruling Class **** (1972, Peter O’Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 7974

Director Peter Medak’s 1972 The Ruling Class is a superb British comedy with a superb British comedy cast that kicks into top gear a painstaking version of Peter Barnes’s offbeat play satirising the nation’s aristocracy, […]

Jan, 03

Hostile Witness ** (1968, Ray Milland, Sylvia Syms, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 7923

Ray Milland directs the 1968 film of the British courtroom drama play by Jack Roffey which he had earlier appeared in successfully on Broadway, with Roffey writing his own screenplay. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England. Milland also […]

Dec, 19

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