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- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
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The Paleface **** (1922, Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5115
This blissful classic 1922 twenty minutes of comedy is a highly amusing, fast-moving, inventive silent short from writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Buster Keaton. It is one of his best – in which he plays a […]
Born of War *** (2013, James Frain, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Lydia Leonard) – Movie Review
Sofia Black-D’Elia stars as Oxford student Mina, whose parents are murdered in a violent invasion on her family home. Only she and her 10-year-old sister survive the attack. They are then taken into protection, and kept separate, […]
The Madwoman of Chaillot *** (1969, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 2431
Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]
Superman and the Mole Men *** (1951, George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2243
After a couple of serials, director Lee Sholem’s engaging 1951 comic book fantasy Superman and the Mole Men is the first Superman cinema feature. George Reeves takes over from Kirk Alyn as Superman/Clark Kent and Phyllis […]
Local Hero **** (1983, Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 1634
Writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1983 vintage-style Scottish comedy is an irresistible throwback to the era and movies of the Forties and Fifties and, in particular, the similarly themed classic Whisky Galore (1949). Peter Riegert stars as Mac, […]
Written on the Wind **** (1956, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1545
Director Douglas Sirk’s penetrating, inspired 1956 movie expose of the idle, pointless lives of the self-destructive rich centres on an ultra-wealthy Texas oil family. Dorothy Malone won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing the sex-crazed […]
The Wages of Fear [Le salaire de la peur] ***** (1953, Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot) – Classic Movie Review 927
Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s awesome sweaty-palmed, uber-tense, ultra-tough 1953 action thriller established his international reputation. It also turned Yves Montand into a star as a member of the desperate quartet (Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli and […]