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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
Posts Tagged "opera"
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Song of Freedom *** (1936, Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy) – Classic Movie Review 11,286
Majestic bass Paul Robeson warbles his way through this fascinating, heartwarming, if long dated, tale of Johnny Zinga, a London dock worker who is turned by his encounter with an impresario into an opera star […]
A Song for Tomorrow ** (1948, Evelyn McCabe, Shaun Noble, Ralph Michael) – Classic Movie Review 11,186
Terence Fisher makes his directorial debut with the overwrought and over-acted but under-written 1948 second-feature black and white romantic drama film A Song for Tomorrow starring Evelyn McCabe, Shaun Noble and Ralph Michael. The story […]
Rhapsody in Blue *** (1945, Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 10,527
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Ray Heindorf, Max Steiner) and Best Sound, Recording (Nathan Levinson). Rather surprisingly, Warner Bros entered it into the Cannes […]
The Great Caruso *** (1951, Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten) – Classic Movie Review 10,217
MGM’s 1951 Technicolor musical drama The Great Caruso stars Mario Lanza in a quasi-biopic that depicts the life of the great Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) in typically distorted Hollywood fashion. Director Richard Thorpe’s […]
Carmen ***½ (1984, Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi) – Classic Movie Review 9835
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
Carmen **** (1983, Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez) – Classic Movie Review 9834
Antonio Gades (as the choreographer Antonio and the film’s real choreographer) and sizzling Laura del Sol (as the main dancer Carmen) kick up a storm in director Carlos Saura’s 1983 Spanish dance film Carmen. In […]
Serenade ** (1956, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 9764
James M Cain’s dark and gritty 1937 thriller source novel Serenade is emasculated to produce a standard soapy Hollywood musical tale of a poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza) rising to operatic success via […]