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The Four Days of Naples [Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli] **** (1962, Regina Bianchi, Aldo Guffre, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel) – Classic Movie Review 12,992

The 1963 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination deservedly went to this powerfully staged and extremely potent re-enactment of the 1943 blood-stained but successful revolt by the citizens of Naples against the Nazis.  Director Nanni […]

Jul, 10

Prince of Pirates ** (1953, John Derek, Barbara Rush, Carla Balenda, Whitfield Connor, Edgar Barrier, Robert Shayne, Harry Lauter, Don C Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 12,027

The 1953 Technicolor film Prince of Pirates stars John Derek as Prince Roland, who leads a revolt against his tyrannical brother, in this passable 16th-century European adventure. Naturally, Derek wins the day and fair maiden […]

Mar, 27

Are You Being Served? ** (1977, John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Wendy Richard) – Classic Movie Review 9821

Director Bob Kellett’s relatively harmless 1977 British comedy Are You Being Served? is the big-screen spinoff from the much-loved long-running BBC TV series as the staff of the London Grace Brothers department store flies off […]

May, 26

Quebec ** (1951, John Drew Barrymore, Corinne Calvet, Barbara Rush, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Arnold Moss, Don Haggerty) – Classic Movie Review 8068

Director George Templeton’s 1951 romantic historical adventure Quebec is silly, unpersuasive costumed tosh located during the 1830s Canadian battle for independence from Britain. The emphasis is on a soapy personal story in which the governor’s […]

Jan, 27

Revolt of the Mercenaries [La rivolta dei mercenari] ** (1961, Virginia Mayo, Conrado San Martín, Susana Canales) – Classic Movie Review 7937

Director Piero Costa’s 1964 Revolt of the Mercenaries [La Rivolta dei Mercenari] is a lurid and lusty if somewhat mediocre Italian swashbuckler, set during the Renaissance in Friuli, Venezia, in an Italy that was then […]

Dec, 23

The Revolt of the Slaves [La Rivolta degli Schiavi] ** (1960, Rhonda Fleming, Lang Jeffries, Darío Moreno, Ettore Manni, Gino Cervi, Fernando Rey, Serge Gainsbourg) – Classic Movie Review 7935

Rhonda Fleming stars as ancient Roman patrician’s daughter Fabiola, who falls for a handsome young Christian slave called Vibio (Lang Jeffries). Nevertheless, the fiery Fabiola has Vibio flogged for disobeying an order. Fleming and her […]

Dec, 22

Battleship Potemkin [Bronenosets Potyomkin] ***** (1925, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov) – Classic Movie Review 4919

Co-writer/director Sergei M Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet silent movie classic recreates the successful sailors’ revolt against their officers aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin in Odessa harbour in 1905 when faced with eating maggot-ridden food. Eisenstein’s dramatised […]

Jan, 22

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