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The Man from Cairo ** (1953, George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 12,388

The inventively far-fetched 1953 film noir The Man from Cairo stars George Raft as ex-serviceman Mike Canelli, a tourist mistaken for a US agent seeking lost WW2 gold.  ‘HE TOOK A DESPERATE CHANCE FOR A […]

Jan, 12

City Across the River *** (1949, Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Luis Van Rooten) – Classic Movie Review 10,589

Director Maxwell Shane’s 1949 black and white film noir thriller City Across the River tells of postwar life in the slums of Brooklyn, where the young hoodlums of a local gang called The Amboy Dukes […]

Nov, 27

Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] ***** (1953, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura) – Classic Movie Review 9669

The 1953 Japanese drama Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari] is the glowing masterpiece that finally established the reputation of its director Yasujirô Ozu outside Japan. Quietly devastating, it is a moving and detailed study of the […]

Apr, 24

Shoeshine [Sciuscià] ***** (1946, Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele) – Classic Movie Review 8450

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]

May, 09

To the Victor ** (1948, Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 7982

Director Delmer Daves’s well-meaning, acceptable 1948 drama To the Victor tells a romantic drama tale of gloom and doom, and stars Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Bruce Bennett, Victor Francen and Dorothy Malone. Morgan stars as […]

Jan, 05

Guest Wife *** (1945, Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran) – Classic Movie Review 7286

‘It Takes A Smart Girl To Know Her Own Husband!’ Director Sam Wood’s bright and breezy 1945 black and white romantic comedy Guest Wife stars Claudette Colbert) as American small-town wife Mary Price, who upsets her bank […]

Jul, 13

The Marriage of Maria Braun [Die Ehe der Maria Braun] ***** (1979, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny) – Classic Movie Review 6184

Co-writer/ producer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s polished 1979 German gem The Marriage of Maria Braun won Hanna Schygulla the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1979 for her startling, eye-opening performance as […]

Nov, 03

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