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Crimes at the Dark House *** (1940, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves) – Classic Movie Review 10,868

Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]

Feb, 02

Laura Lansing Slept Here *** (1988, Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 10,374

Producer-director George Schaefer’s 1988 made-for-TV comedy Laura Lansing Slept Here provides a tailor-made role for Katharine Hepburn, playing Laura Lansing, a character much like herself, an indomitable old novelist who, when told by her agent […]

Oct, 01

Le Rouge et le Noir [The Red and the Black] *** (1954, Danielle Darrieux, Gérard Philipe, Antonella Lualdi) – Classic Movie Review 9977

Director Claude Autant-Lara’s 1954 French romantic drama Le Rouge et le Noir [The Red and the Black] is a good-looking, attractively acted adaptation of the once scandalous 1831 Stendhal novel, in which humble Julien Sorel […]

Jun, 29

So Close to Life [Nära livet] [Brink of Life] **** (1958, Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson) – Classic Movie Review 9923

Director Ingmar Bergman’s 1958 Swedish drama film So Close to Life [Nära livet] [Brink of Life] is one of his least well known and least popular films, but it turns out to have much to […]

Jun, 17

The Food of the Gods * (1976, Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino, Jon Cypher) – Classic Movie Review 9570

Writer-director Bert I Gordon’s 1976 low-budget exploitation quickie The Food of the Gods is a silly, gooey chiller, adapted from an H G Wells story, about gunge from the ground that creates monsters of insects […]

Mar, 28

Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] **** (1976, Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel) – Classic Movie Review 9466

Eric Rohmer’s witty and affecting adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s famous novella Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on the honourable German […]

Mar, 05

All the Fine Young Cannibals *** (1960, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8801

The MGM studio advertised it as ‘There are no rules… there is no limit… IN THE LOVE-HUNGRY WORLD OF THESE YOUNG SOPHISTICATES!’ Money, partner swapping, drugs and restless youth: MGM thought that director Michael Anderson’s […]

Aug, 06

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