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Operation Petticoat **** (1959, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Dina Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 3074

Director Blake Edwards’s 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, who play ideally well together as an admiral and a conniving lieutenant. This is a warm-hearted, old-style World War Two comedy about salvaging the […]

Nov, 21

Loot ***½ (1970, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Roy Holder, Lee Remick, Milo O’Shea, Dick Emery, Joe Lynch, John Cater, Aubrey Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2971

Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]

Oct, 10

Doctor in the House **** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, Donald Houston, James Robertson Justice, Muriel Pavlow) – Classic Movie Review 2,691

Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]

Jul, 11

Doctor at Sea *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham, Joan Sims, Brenda de Banzie, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 2690

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1955 British comedy is the welcome second Doctor adventure, more farcical than the first one, Doctor in the House (1954). Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow, this time leaving St Swithin’s […]

Jul, 11

Return to Sender *** (2015, Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Nolte, Illeana Douglas, Rumer Willis, Scout Taylor-Compton) – Movie Review

Rosamund Pike is back in Gone Girl mode in director Fouad Mikati’s intriguing thriller, as a nurse American small town who is brutally raped by a boy (Shiloh Fernandez) who turns up at her home just […]

May, 21

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ***** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Scatman Crothers) – Classic Movie Review 2,467

The exhilarating 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is only the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay). Director Milos Forman’s exhilarating 1975 movie One […]

May, 09

South Pacific ***** (1958, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, Juanita Hall, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 2181

South Pacific (1958) is certainly some enchanted evening in the cinema, as original theatre director Joshua Logan brings Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (score)’s classic 1949 Broadway musical to the screen with its […]

Feb, 19

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