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Hands of the Ripper **** (1971, Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow, Dora Bryan, Derek Godfrey, Keith Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3109

‘The Hands of Jack the Ripper Live Again… As His Fiendish Daughter Kills Again… And Again…And Again…’ Director Peter Sasdy’s 1971 Hammer Films British chiller Hands of the Ripper stars Angharad Rees as the beautiful […]

Nov, 29

The Astonished Heart *** (1950, Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton, Graham Payn, Joyce Carey) – Classic Movie Review 3049

One of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8:30 collection of 10 short plays (like Still Life that became Brief Encounter) looks thin and exposed in director Terence Fisher’s poorly directed, sluggish 1950 screen version. It fails […]

Nov, 09

Carefree **** (1938, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear, Clarence Kolb, Jack Carson, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 2953

Director Mark Sandrich’s 1938 romantic comedy musical movie is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s eighth film together and, though there is a lot of fun to be found here, sadly the high standard is now […]

Oct, 04

Mr Jones ** (1993, Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Delroy Lindo) – Classic Movie Review 2,813

Richard Gere stars as the bipolar Mr Jones, in director Mike Figgis’s maddening, but well made and often convincingly handled 1993 romantic drama film. Richard Gere stars as the Mr Jones of the title in […]

Aug, 15

Dracula’s Daughter *** (1936, Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 2767

Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1936 horror movie (remotely based on Bram Stoker’s short story Dracula’s Guest) is a low-budget, effective sequel to the 1931 Dracula that picks up (alas without Bela Lugosi) where it leaves off. The […]

Aug, 02

The Naked Face *** (1984, Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Anne Archer) – Classic Movie Review 2432

Writer-director Bryan Forbes’s 1984 thriller, made for producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus’s Canon Films, was his 14th and final movie as director. It is an adaptation of Sidney Sheldon’s novel and stars Roger Moore […]

Apr, 27

Les Espions [The Spies] **** (1957, Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, Martita Hunt, Sam Jaffe, Véra Clouzot, O E Hasse, Paul Carpenter, Gérard Séty) – Classic Movie Review 2359

Co-writer/director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s intriguing and unusual 1957 spy thriller, with his screenplay based on the book by Egon Hostovsky, focuses on a rundown, faltering psychiatric clinic. There the psychiatrist owner, desperate for money to keep […]

Apr, 05

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