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The Seventh Veil **** (1945, James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 3780

Ann Todd and Herbert Lom are outstanding in director Compton Bennett’s rousing Oscar-winning 1945 British psychiatry drama The Seventh Veil but it is James Mason who steals the show. ‘If you won’t play for me, […]

May, 29

Kiss Me, Stupid **** (1964, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 3667

Director Billy Wilder’s sharp and funny 1964 comedy provides a grand star showcase for Dean Martin, who sends his image up gamely and delightfully as a hard-drinking, charming and lecherous Las Vegas crooner called Dino with […]

May, 06

Ragtime **** (1981, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E Rollins Jr, James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, Pat O’Brien, Brad Dourif) – Classic Movie Review 3664

Director Milos Forman’s 1981 drama tempted the 81-year-old James Cagney out of retirement for one final appearance in the cinema, though he made one more TV movie, Terrible Joe Moran, in 1984. He had not […]

May, 06

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore ***** (1974, Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter III, Billy Green Bush, Lelia Goldoni, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Curtin, Diane Ladd, Vic Tayback, Mia Bendixsen) – Classic Movie Review 3,425

Martin Scorsese’s 1974 romantic drama film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a triumph, not least for Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn but also for Kris Kristofferson as Alice’s good-hearted suitor. Hey, is this you? ‘A picture […]

Feb, 28

The Beast with Five Fingers **** (1946, Peter Lorre, Andrea King, Robert Alda, J Carrol Naish, Victor Francen) – Classic Movie Review 3114

‘Your flesh will creep… AT THE HAND THAT CRAWLS!!’ Director Robert Florey and writer Curt Siodmak’s 1946 horror movie is highly amusing stuff about a creepy crawly handy sort of beast that roams about a […]

Nov, 30

Mr Jones ** (1993, Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Delroy Lindo) – Classic Movie Review 2,813

Richard Gere stars as the bipolar Mr Jones, in director Mike Figgis’s maddening, but well made and often convincingly handled 1993 romantic drama film. Richard Gere stars as the Mr Jones of the title in […]

Aug, 15

Un Chien Andalou [An Andalusian Dog] ***** (1929, Luis Buñuel) – Classic Movie Review 1949

After all these years, writer-director Luis Buñuel’s and co-writer Salvador Dali’s uniquely disturbing, revelatory 1929 Surrealist short (17 minutes) film is a still brilliantly eye-catching Pandora’s box of the strangest of delights. It spills over with apparently […]

Dec, 13

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