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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
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Texas Rangers ** (2001, James Van Der Beek, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher, Dylan McDermott) – Classic Movie Review 1891
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a posse of courageous young gunslingers resolves to prevent Texas from falling into lawless ruin and form the Texas Rangers to clean up the place. Director Steve […]
Annie *** (1999, Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Alan Cumming, Alicia Morton) – Classic Movie Review 1885
This surprise 1999 remake of the 1982 movie by Rob Marshall, the director of Chicago, is very entertaining. Disney’s remake follows the successful 1998 Broadway revival of the show. It is well regarded as a more […]
Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] ***½ (1941, Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard) – Classic Movie Review 1836
Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]
Oliver! ***** (1968, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1809
Consider yourself well in! Director Carol Reed was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens, followed […]
Ida ***** (2013, Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza) – Movie Review
Young novitiate Ida’s plans to become a nun in 1962 Poland are interrupted by her convent’s insistence on her visiting her estranged aunt Wanda just before she takes her vows. Ida (Agata Trzebuchowska) is an […]
Shooting Fish *** (1997, Stuart Townsend, Dan Futterman, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Movie Review 1490
Writer-director Stefan Schwartz’s 1997 British comedy stars Stuart Townsend and Dan Futterman as Jez and Dylan, a couple of orphaned con-men who join up with their posh office temp Georgie (Kate Beckinsale) to scam enough […]
The Kid ***** (1921, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 1053
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s classic 1921 silent comedy is one of his masterpieces. It ominously starts by declaring itself ‘a comedy with a smile – and perhaps a tear’ but that needn’t put us off too […]