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Tom Brown’s Schooldays **** (1951, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, John Charlesworth, James Hayter, John Forrest, Diana Wynyard, Kathleen Byron, Hermione Baddeley, Glyn Dearman, Francis de Wolff, Max Bygraves) – Classic Movie Review 3526
Robert Newton stars in a brilliantly sturdy and showy performance from as the strict and stern English public school reforming headmaster Dr Arnold, in the 1951 British film remake of the 1940 Hollywood movie Tom […]
Les Misérables *** (1952, Robert Newton, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester, James Robertson Justice, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 3147
Robert Newton gives an entertaining, lip-smacking performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in this well-acted, thoroughly enjoyable if not especially distinguished screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Michael Rennie perhaps is less […]
Around the World in 80 Days **** (1956, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 2452
Director Michael Anderson’s 1956 Technicolor epic action adventure comedy film triumphed on Academy Award night, winning five rather undeserved Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. Producer-showman Michael Todd, a […]
Long John Silver *** (1954, Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell, Rod Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 2059
Robert Newton returns to the incredibly popular pirate role he made his own and was clearly born to play in director Byron Haskin’s 1954 sequel to his Treasure Island (1950), this time made in Australia, […]
Treasure Island **** (1950, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 2058
Ah, ha, Jim lad! The inimitable, or very imitable, Robert Newton is an absolute knockout in the 1950 adventure film Treasure Island as the best-ever eccentric pirate captain Long John Silver. Go on, Talk Like […]
Odd Man Out ***** (1946, James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 1807
Director Carol Reed’s moody, impeccably crafted 1946 British thriller showcases one of James Mason’s most renowned performances as Johnny McQueen, an IRA Irish nationalist leader gunman who commits a failed mill robbery in Belfast, kills […]
This Happy Breed **** (1944, Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh) Classic Movie Review 1677
Playwright Noel Coward makes a lovely attempt to show how ordinary, salt-of-the-earth English people lived between World War One and World War Two. Director David Lean, who also co-wrote the screenplay with producer Anthony Havelock-Allan and […]