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The House on 56th Street ** (1933, Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Gene Raymond, John Halliday, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 11,465

Director Robert Florey’s 1933 Warner Bros American pre-Code melodrama film The House on 56th Street stars Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone, a wronged woman sent to prison for 20 years […]

Aug, 09

Parnell * (1937, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edmund Gwenn, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal, Donald Crisp, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 11,127

‘The romance that rocked the foundations of an empire…. now lives on the screen!’ Director John M Stahl’s 1937 black and white historical romantic drama Parnell is a tedious, misbegotten biopic of Charles Stewart Parnell, […]

Apr, 22

A Face in the Crowd **** (1957, Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Lee Remick, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 10,896

Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal give perhaps the best performances of their careers in producer-director Elia Kazan’s memorable protest movie about the manipulation of the public by the media, the 1957 black and white drama […]

Feb, 09

Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] * (1982, Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Ingrid Pitt, Edward Woodward, Robert Webber, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9579

Director Ian Sharp’s 1982 gung-ho British action thriller Who Dares Wins [The Final Option] (1982) is a British SAS (Special Air Service) adventure yarn about tough guys storming in to the American Embassy in London […]

Mar, 31

Storm in a Teacup **** (1937, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7807

Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker and a young Vivien Leigh kick up a storm over an old Scots lady and a dog licence, in directors Ian Dalrymple and Victor Saville’s 1937 British clever canine caper Storm […]

Nov, 19

Widows ** (2018, Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Erivo) – Movie Review

Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]

Oct, 10

Rough Magic ** (1995, Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent) – Classic Movie Review 6847

Co-writer/ director Clare Peploe’s odd 1995 comedy film reworking of a vintage 1944 thriller novel by expert James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand is an extremely well crafted, interesting movie but a bit of […]

Mar, 24

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