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Harvest [Stadt Land Fluss] ***½ (2011, Lukas Steltner, Kai Michael Müller) – Classic Movie Review 12,348

Benjamin Cantu’s 2011 German LGBT romantic drama film Harvest [Stadt Land Fluss] is a sweet and simple but serious-minded boy meets boy story, set on an austere apprentice farming community, with loads of atmosphere and […]

Nov, 25

Children Galore ** (1955, Eddie Byrne, Marjorie Rhodes, June Thorburn, Richard Leech, Betty Ann Davies) – Classic Movie Review 11,140

Director Terence Fisher’s cheery 1955 British black and white comedy Children Galore is a spirited comic effort that tells this tale of a titled couple, Lord and Lady Redscarf (Evan Thomas, Marjorie Hume), who offer […]

Apr, 27

God’s Little Acre **** (1958, Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett, Jack Lord, Fay Spain, Vic Morrow, Tina Louise, Michael Landon) – Classic Movie Review 10,558

‘Love! Hate! Pride! Passion! Rampant, Riotous In the Heat of a Southern Sun!’ The 1933 Erskine Caldwell novel about a Depression-era Georgia farming family is faithfully translated (though diluted) in director Anthony Mann’s steamy, stormingly […]

Nov, 18

Summer and Smoke *** (1961, Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, John McIntire, Pamela Tiffin, Thomas Gomez, Earl Holliman, Lee Patrick, Malcolm Atterbury) – Classic Movie Review 10,418

Director Peter Glenville’s fiery 1962 drama of repressed love Summer and Smoke offers more Tennessee Williams Southern poetic passion, with Geraldine Page grabbing her chance to repeat her off-Broadway role as a hurt and fading […]

Oct, 15

Hearts of the World *** (1918, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron) – Classic Movie Review 10,198

D W Griffith’s famed 1918 silent World War One flagwaver propaganda drama Hearts of the World has a scenario by Griffith, in which a French family suffers as their son, Douglas Gordon Hamilton (Robert Harron) […]

Aug, 19

The Visit *** (1964, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Paolo Stoppa) – Classic Movie Review 9758

Director Bernhard Wicki’s 1964 The Visit [Der Besuch] stars Ingrid Bergman as rich Carla Zachanassian, who goes back home to bribe the townsfolk and to kill Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn), who seduced and drove her […]

May, 13

Daughter of Darkness ** (1990, Anthony Perkins, Mia Sara, Jack Coleman, Robert Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 9563

Director Stuart Gordon’s 1990 made for TV horror movie Daughter of Darkness stars Anthony Perkins and Mia Sara. Mia Sara plays Kathy Thatcher, who is plagued by strange dreams that lead her to Romania in […]

Mar, 26

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