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Count Three and Pray *** (1955, Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey, Raymond Burr, Allison Hayes, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 8586

Director George Sherman’s 1955 Count Three and Pray is a very decent little Technicolor CinemaScope Western with a punchy performance by the sometimes too-quiet actor Van Heflin as the homecoming Civil War veteran Luke Fargo, […]

Jun, 12

Winter Light [Nattvardsgästerna] [The Communicants] ***** (1963, Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 4835

The 1963 second, middle part of writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy on religious faith, Winter Light [Nattvardsgästerna], stars several of his finest interpreters but is by far the starkest and most difficult of the three. It […]

Jan, 02

La Symphonie Pastorale [Pastoral Symphony] **** (1946, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar, Jean Desailly, Line Noro) – Classic Movie Review 4804

Michèle Morgan was the first ever winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946 for co-writer/ director Jean Delannoy’s moving 1946 French drama film La Symphonie Pastorale [Pastoral Symphony], an adaptation […]

Dec, 22

Raising Helen *** (2004, Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin, Hayden Panettiere, Felicity Huffman, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 4056

Kate Hudson plays a young woman who becomes the guardian of her sister and brother-in-law three children (Spencer Breslin, Abigail Breslin) after the couple are killed in a car accident. Director Garry Marshall treads carefully in this enjoyable 2004 laughter and tears […]

Jul, 20

The Scarlet Letter * (1995, Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 2948

Director Roland Joffe’s 1995 drama stars Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child in 17th-century Puritan-ruled New England. Gary Oldman also stars as the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the preacher. Refusing to […]

Oct, 03

Saved! *** (2004, Jenna Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Martin Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 2852

Co-writer/director Brian Dannelly’s 2004 release stars Jenna Malone as Mary, a girl attending a Christian high school, whose school pals condemn her when she gets pregnant. Mary thinks she has the perfect Christian boyfriend in Dean (Chad […]

Aug, 27

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