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Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] ** (1973, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston, Anthony Quayle, Margaret Leighton, Dominic Guard, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 10,716
Director James Cellan Jones’s 1973 British historical biopic Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] stars Peter Finch as Viscount Horatio Nelson (1759-1805) and Glenda Jackson as his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton (1765-1815). This is […]
Lady Hamilton [That Hamilton Woman] *** (1941, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Gladys Cooper, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 7328
Director Alexander Korda’s 1941 Lady Hamilton (That Hamilton Woman in the US) is a grandly theatrical, but inaccurately and dully written biopic on the extra-marital love affair during the Napoleonic Wars between Admiral Horatio Nelson […]
Désirée ** (1954, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 7144
Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]
Swiss Family Robinson *** (1940, Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Terry Kilburn) – Classic Movie Review 6938
Director Edward Ludwig’s 1940 adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson stars Thomas Mitchell, who is excellent as William Robinson, the patriarch of the Robinson family, shipwrecked on their way to Australia and stranded on a desert […]
The Duellists **** (1977, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Tom Conti, Robert Stephens, John McEnery, Diana Quick) – Classic Movie Review 6461
Director Ridley Scott’s 1977 debut British feature film is an eye-catching version of Joseph Conrad’s story The Duel about two French Napoleonic officers (Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel) who engage in epic feuding in a bizarre […]
HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] **** (1962, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Nigel Stock, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 6,382
Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde star in the stirring 1962 Napoleonic Wars sea saga film HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] about the on-board clash on the British vessel in 1797. Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde […]
Captain Horatio Hornblower RN *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Terence Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 4808
Gregory Peck stands steady in a tense and taciturn star turn as the fictional early 19th century British Navy hero Captain Horatio Hornblower at the helm of producer-director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 ocean-going story based on C […]