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- Freedom to Die *** (1961, Paul Maxwell, Felicity Young, Bruce Seton, T P McKenna, Kay Callard) – Classic Movie Review 13,350
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- Nosferatu * (2024, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney) – Classic Movie Review 13,347
- Lydia *** (1941, Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Hans Jaray, Alan Marshal, George Reeves, Sara Allgood, John Halliday) – Classic Movie Review 13,346
- Crossroads to Crime ** (1960, Anthony Oliver, George Murcell, David Graham, Miriam Karlin, Ferdy Mayne) – Classic Movie Review 13,348
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- The Double * (1963, Jeannette Sterke, Alan MacNaughtan, Robert Brown, Jane Griffiths, Basil Henson) – Classic Movie Review 13,343
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A Tale of Two Cities **** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Christopher Lee, Athene Seyler, Rosalie Crutchley, Ernest Clark, Paul Guers) – Classic Movie Review 6937
Director Ralph Thomas’s fine, ambitious 1958 British version of A Tale of Two Cities is the sixth film version of the Charles Dickens tale of heroics and romance during the French Revolution, carefully adapted by T […]
Switching Channels **** (1988, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6932
Switching Channels (1988) is none other than Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway newspapers comedy melodrama The Front Page spruced up for the satellite era, with the newspaper reporters of the original play updated to television reporters […]
The Student Prince ** (1954, Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, John Williams, Edmund Gwenn, S Z Sakall, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 6886
Sigmund Romberg’s classic operetta The Student Prince is stodgily filmed by MGM in 1954, but nothing stops those vintage Romberg melodies. Mario Lanza’s beautiful tenor voice soars on the soundtrack, but he is nowhere to […]
The Old Dark House * (1963, Tom Poston, Janette Scott, Robert Morley, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Johns, Fenella Fielding, Peter Bull, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 6868
Universal Studios lost the rights to the original J B Priestley story in 1957 and director James Whale’s brilliant 1932 old dark comedy chiller The Old Dark House was duly remade by director William Castle in 1962 for […]
Intermezzo: A Love Story **** (1939, Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard, Edna Best) – Classic Movie Review 6679
It is time to get your box of handkerchiefs at the ready for director Gregory Ratoff’s irresistibly charming 1939 romantic drama tearjerker that launched the American career of Ingrid Bergman, who had already appeared in […]
Color Me Dead * (1969, Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason) – Classic Movie Review 6677
Producer-director Eddie Davis’s 1969 Australian remake of the 1950 film noir classic D.O.A. stars Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, an accountant who finds he has taken a slow-working deadly poison and must track down his […]
Interlude *** (1957, June Allyson, Rossano Brazzi, Marianne Koch, Françoise Rosay, Keith Andes) – Classic Movie Review 6671
Douglas Sirk directs this heady 1957 four-hankie, majorly tear-jerking romantic melodrama, a remake of the 1939 hit When Tomorrow Comes, with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, based on the original story A Modern Cinderella by James M Cain, […]