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Lisbon *** (1956, Ray Milland, Maureen O’Hara, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 3643

Producer-director Ray Milland hires himself in 1956 to star his thriller Lisbon as an ex-US Navy ship’s skipper, now adventurer-smuggler, Captain Robert John Evans. With Lisbon, Milland moves into direction, the first of several offbeat, low-budget films including himself as […]

May, 01

Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] ***½ (1962, Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon) – Classic Movie Review 3640

‘An orgy of looting and lust. The day when civilisation came to an end!’ The 1962 Panic in Year Zero! [Panic in the Year Zero] is the best of actor Ray Milland’s directing efforts, following A […]

May, 01

X – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes *** (1963, Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J Stone, Don Rickles, John Hoyt, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 3639

Director Roger Corman’s 1963 heated hybrid of horror and sci-fi stars Ray Milland as a world-renowned scientist, who tries out his all-seeing serum to improve the capacity of the human eye and uses his special […]

May, 01

The Thief **** (1952, Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Rita Gam) – Classic Movie Review 3492

Co-writer/director Russell Rouse’s inventive and innovative 1952 movie is notable as one of the few films with synchronised sound to be made completely without any spoken dialogue. It was advertised as ‘ The Only Motion Picture […]

Mar, 23

The Major and the Minor **** (1942, Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 2662

The Viennese immigrant Billy Wilder finally fulfils his ambition to direct his first American movie in 1942 in this highly enjoyable, bubbly vintage comedy, based on the play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter. Ginger Rogers gives […]

Jul, 03

The Big Clock **** (1948, Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 2575

Charles Laughton grabs the opportunity to shine in director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian thriller The Big Clock.  In director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian black-and-white film noir thriller The Big Clock, Charles Laughton grabs the […]

Jun, 09

The Uninvited ****½ (1944, Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Gail Russell, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 2279

Director Lewis Allen’s 1944 classic supernatural mystery romance is a superlatively spooky ghost story, treated admirably seriously, about a brother and sister (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) having a holiday on Cornwall, where they fall in love with, […]

Mar, 18

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