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The Nun’s Story **** (1959, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans) – Classic Movie Review 8127

‘He that shall lose his life for me shall find it.’ Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1959 The Nun’s Story stars the always beautiful Audrey Hepburn, who disguises her usual chic beauty and shines in a strong […]

Feb, 13

Nurse on Wheels *** (1963, Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell, Esma Cannon, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8119

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1963 black and white comedy Nurse on Wheels stars Juliet Mills as a young nurse called Joanna Jones, who gets on her bike and cycles around a rural England community full of […]

Feb, 12

Twice Round the Daffodils *** (1962, Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 8118

Juliet Mills stars as a nice nurse called Catty, who tends randy, troublesome patients, in director Gerald Thomas’s minor, very British 1962 farce Twice Round the Daffodils, set in a men’s tuberculosis clinic, where, as […]

Feb, 11

The Lady with a Lamp *** (1951, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young) – Classic Movie Review 8038

The romantic team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding returns in director Herbert Wilcox’s engrossing 1951 historical drama The Lady with a Lamp, an episodic and stately biography of the great English pioneer lady of nursing. Neagle […]

Jan, 20

Hanover Street * (1979, Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 7785

After hitting the big time with Star Wars, Harrison Ford went into something completely different – and surely regretted it. He plays – forlornly – David, an American bomber pilot stationed in England who meets […]

Nov, 14

Paisà [Paisan] ***** (1946, Carmela Sazio, Joseph Garland Moore Jr, William Tubbs, Maria Michi, Harriet Medin) – Classic Movie Review 7542

The 1946 Italian war drama Paisà [Paisan] is director Roberto Rossellini’s classic neo-realist account of how Italians lived in chaos, peril, emotional upheaval and hunger during the allied invasion of 1943-44, as the Allies head […]

Sep, 04

Sister Kenny *** (1946, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 7262

A well cast Rosalind Russell was Oscar nominated for her dedicated acting as Sister Elizabeth Kenny in director Dudley Nichols’s stirring 1946 biopic based on Mary Kenny’s own story And They Shall Walk (written with Martha […]

Jul, 07

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