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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Sunset Across the Bay **** (1975, Gabrielle Daye, Harry Markham, Bob Peck, Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 12,877
Stephen Frears’s amusing, touching and ultimately sad 1975 TV drama Sunset Across the Bay is a bitter-sweet treat, written by Alan Bennett, and starring Gabrielle Daye and Harry Markham. Director Stephen Frears’s amusing, touching and […]
Meet Mr Lucifer ** (1953, Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty, Gordon Jackson, Kay Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 11,211
‘A Devil-May-Care Joker From Ealing Studios’: Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953). Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British black and white Ealing Studios satirical fantasy comedy Meet Mr Lucifer stars Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling and Barbara […]
Calling Bulldog Drummond *** (1951, Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson, Peggy Evans) – Classic Movie Review 10,879
Ron Randell and Tom Conway tried the Bulldog Drummond character for two films each in 1947-48, followed by Walter Pidgeon in this one-off appearance in director Victor Saville’s 1951 mystery crime thriller Calling Bulldog Drummond, […]
Dad’s Army **** (1971, Arthur Lowe, John le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender, Bill Pertwee, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 3,315
Director Norman Cohen’s 1971 vintage British comedy film Dad’s Army is set in 1939 in Walmington-on-Sea, England, where George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), manager of St Martin’s Bank, forms the town’s platoon of the Local Defence […]
The Intern *** (2015, Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo) – Movie Review
Robert De Niro plays 70-year-old retired widower Ben Whittaker. He’s a sweet, kind, thoughtful and indeed almost saintly individual. This gives De Niro quite a challenge. All the way through this spectacularly long comedy, I […]
The Murders in the Rue Morgue *** (1986, George C Scott, Rebecca De Mornay, Ian McShane, Neil Dickson, Val Kilmer) – Classic Movie Review 2683
The fifth film of Edgar Allan Poe’s gory horror story is once again set in 19th century Paris. It is tautly and imaginatively handled by director Jeannot Szwarc in 1986. And it is greatly enlivened […]
Mr Holmes ***½ (2015, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Frances de la Tour) – Movie Review
With a bit of Gandalf in there, and looking and sounding remarkably like Sir John Gielgud, Ian McKellen has a lot of fun slicing the ham as an aged, retired Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is […]