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Mister Ten Per Cent ** (1967, Charlie Drake, George Baker, Annette Andre, John Le Mesurier, Una Stubbs, Derek Nimmo, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 11,478

Director Peter Graham Scott’s strained, largely unfunny 1967 British comedy film Mister Ten Per Cent stars Charlie Drake, George Baker, Annette Andre, John Le Mesurier, Una Stubbs, Derek Nimmo and Wanda Ventham. Drake plays construction […]

Aug, 14

Author! Author! *** (1982, Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Bob Dishy) – Classic Movie Review 9675

Director Arthur Hiller’s 1982 comedy Author! Author! Stars Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, and Bob Dishy, and has a screenplay by Israel Horovitz. Although Al Pacino is odd casting (since he is not exactly […]

Apr, 25

Salome’s Last Dance *** (1988, Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais-Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7127

‘NOTORIOUS, SCANDALOUS, WILDE!’ Writer-director Ken Russell takes a walk on the Wilde side and again challenges our good will and his actors’ stamina in his provocative and colourful, sometimes amusing and inventive, sometimes silly and […]

Jun, 06

Romeo and Juliet *** (1936, Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, Edna May Oliver, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 6298

In a lavish labour of love, MGM producer Irving Thalberg miscasts his wife Norma Shearer and a poetic Leslie Howard as the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet for director George Cukor’s careful and intelligent 1936 […]

Nov, 24

Privileged *** (1982, Robert Woolley, Diana Katis, Hugh Grant, Victoria Studd, James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Mark Williams) – Classic Movie Review 5976

Director Michael Hoffman’s 1982 British film tells an old-fashioned, 1960s-style story of an egocentric actor and is an odd choice in 1982 for a feature film made by an amateur cast and crew from Oxford […]

Aug, 27

It Runs in the Family *** (2003, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Bernadette Peters, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Michelle Monaghan, Rory Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 5094

The long-awaited meeting of Michael Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas on film had to wait till Kirk was 87 and had suffered a major stroke. Still, better late than never. In director Fred Schepisi’s […]

Mar, 03

Tetro **** (2009, Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú, Carmen Maura, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 4735

Writer / producer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s highly impressive 2009 film noir-infused emotional drama stars Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verdú and tells the story of the reunion of two brothers. Coppola’s screenplay follows the rivalries arising […]

Jan, 02

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