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Postman’s Knock ** (1962, Spike Milligan, Barbara Shelley, Wilfrid Lawson, Miles Malleson, Bob Todd, Warren Mitchell, Arthur Mullard, Lance Percival) – Classic Movie Review 12,018

They tried to turn Spike Milligan into a movie star with Postman’s Knock (1962).  Director Robert Lynn’s 1962 British mail theft ring slapstick comedy film Postman’s Knock stars Spike Milligan and Barbara Shelley, along with […]

Mar, 19

Post Office Investigator ** (1949, Audrey Long, Warren Douglas, Jeff Donnell, Marcel Journet, Richard Benedict, Jimmie Dodd) – Classic Movie Review 11,502

Director George Blair’s likeable minor 1949 Republic Pictures black and white American crime film Post Office Investigator is based on a screenplay by John K Butler about the theft of rare postage stamps, and stars […]

Aug, 22

The Aviator’s Wife [La femme de l’aviateur] **** (1981, Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 9460

The Aviator’s Wife [La Femme de l’Aviateur] (1981) is an excellent conversation piece from Eric Rohmer (the opening one of his Comédies et Proverbes series) about a young Frenchman François (Philippe Marlaud) and the eponymous […]

Mar, 04

The Stupids ** (1996, Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 6648

The title The Stupids gives cause for great fear, but this 1996 movie turns out to be a surprisingly tolerable comic-book comedy, with a genial and funny star turn by Tom Arnold as Stanley Stupid, […]

Feb, 04

La Cérémonie [A Judgement in Stone] **** (1995, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen) – Classic Movie Review 4,192

Claude Chabrol turns Ruth Rendell’s thriller novel A Judgement in Stone into one of his best movies, the 1995 crime drama film La Cérémonie. Isabelle Huppert won the 1996 César Award for Best Actress, one […]

Aug, 17

Dear God *** (1996, Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Pitillo, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 2000

It is hard to dislike director Garry Marshall’s 1996 feel-good comedy, in which Greg Kinnear stars as conman Tom Turner, who gets a job in the dead-letter department of the US Post Office, and decides […]

Dec, 24

Postman Pat: The Movie *** (2014, Stephen Mangan) – Movie Review

Stephen Mangan provides the voice of English village Postman Pat, who enters a TV talent show competition to win a holiday to Italy for his wife and kid, in this colourful and amusing transfer of the […]

May, 22

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