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Follow Me ** (1972, Mia Farrow, Topol, Michael Jayston) – Classic Movie Review 11,205

Director Carol Reed’s offbeat 1971 comedy drama British Follow Me is written by Peter Shaffer, based on half of his double-bill play The Private Ear and The Public Eye. It stars Topol, Michael Jayston and […]

May, 14

Million Dollar Mermaid ** (1952, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian) – Classic Movie Review 9373

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1952 MGM Technicolor musical Million Dollar Mermaid [The One Piece Bathing Suit] is a wet and washed-out biography of Annette Kellermann [Kellerman] (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975), the turn-of-the-last-century champion […]

Feb, 12

London by Night *** (1937, George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field, George Zucco, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 9177

Kidnapping and blackmail are at the heart of a series of mysterious murders by an umbrella-wielding killer taking place in London during the dead of night, investigated by Scotland Yard policeman Inspector Jefferson (George Zucco) […]

Dec, 20

The Horse’s Mouth ** (1958, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renée Houston) – Classic Movie Review 7997

Alec Guinness both plays the dedicated non-conformist London artist hero Gulley Jimson seeking his artistic ideal and writes the screenplay of director Ronald Neame’s lifeless, disappointing 1958 British film of Joyce Cary’s 1944 novel The Horse’s […]

Jan, 09

The Naked Edge ***½ (1961, Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold, Michael Wilding, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3847

Director Michael Anderson’s tantalising and engrossing 1961 British movie provides Gary Cooper with his final film role. It is an enjoyably convoluted, far-fetched thriller, written by Joseph Stefano, the author of Psycho, adapting Max Ehrlich’s […]

Jun, 11

The Face of Fu Manchu **** (1965, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Tsai Chin, Howard Marion-Crawford, James Robertson Justice, Walter Rilla, Joachim Fuchsburger, Karin Dor) – Classic Movie Review 2945

Director Don Sharp’s brisk and entertaining 1965 British-West German crime thriller horror movie is the first and best of five Twenties period thrillers featuring Christopher Lee as Sax Rohmer’s dastardly super-villain character Fu Manchu, who surprisingly […]

Oct, 03

The Giant Behemoth [Behemoth the Sea Monster] *** (1959, Gene Evans, André Morell, Leigh Madison, John Turner, Jack MacGowran, Maurice Kaufmann) – Classic Movie Review 2901

Eugène Lourié’s 1959 British sci-fi horror film The Giant Behemoth is entertaining, charming and fun. The legendary Willis H O’Brien designs and directs the enjoyably dated stop-motion animation scenes, as a giant marine monster menaces […]

Sep, 12

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