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- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
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- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
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Oedipus the King **** (1968, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Orson Welles, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack, Roger Livesey, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 3274
That great actor Christopher Plummer is stupendous as Oedipus in co-writer/director Philip Saville’s brave and imaginative attempt to film the classic Sophocles Greek tragic play. And Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer and Richard Johnson are marvellous also as the doomsayer […]
The Drum [Drums] **** (1938, Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson, Desmond Tester, David Tree) – Classic Movie Review 3067
Director Zoltan Korda’s 1938 British film stars a 14-year-old Sabu in this thrilling Raj tale based on an original screen story by A E W Mason, author of The Four Feathers, filmed by Korda in […]
The Entertainer ***** (1960, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 2527
Director Tony Richardson’s superlative 1960 film version of one of John Osborne’s finest theatre plays The Entertainer has the enormous advantage of encouraging Laurence Olivier to record for posterity one of his greatest stage appearances – […]
I Know Where I’m Going! **** (1945, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney) – Classic Movie Review 618
Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s typically idiosyncratic 1945 romantic comedy is simply enchanting. The film boasts irresistible acting from the great cast of some of Britain’s most reliable performers of the day, a lovely screenplay with […]
A Matter of Life and Death [Stairway to Heaven] ***** (1946, David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey ) – Classic Movie Review 604
‘This is a story of two worlds the one we know and another which exists only in the mind of a young airman whose life and imagination have been violently shaped by war. Any resemblance to […]
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ***** (1943, Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook) – Classic Movie Review 599
Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s unique, warm-hearted 1943 epic drama The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a master-crafted jewel in the crown of British cinema as one of the nation’s best ever […]
The League of Gentlemen **** (1960, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 191
The superlative 1960 heist caper film The League of Gentlemen stars Jack Hawkins as a disgruntled former British military officer who assembles a gang of disgraced military gentlemen for a daring bank job. Renowned producer-director […]
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