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Dulcima *** (1971, Carol White, John Mills, Stuart Wilson, Bernard Lee, Dudley Foster) – Classic Movie Review 4277

Writer-director Frank Nesbitt’s 1971 British drama stars Carol White (Poor Cow) as pretty young Dulcima Gaskain, who helps out mean, hard-drinking old farmer Mr Parker (John Mills) by cleaning his farm house. Soon she moves in […]

Sep, 01

Grumpier Old Men *** (1995, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 3828

Director Howard Deutch’s 1995 comedy brings Jack Lemmon (aged 70) and Walter Matthau (75) back as the long-time feuding next-door neighbours in Wabasha, Minnesota in this bright and jolly sequel to their unexpected 1993 hit, […]

Jun, 08

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

The Flim-Flam Man [One Born Every Minute] ***½ (1967, George C Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Albert Salmi, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 3,187

The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]

Dec, 27

The Kiss of the Vampire *** (1963, Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel) – Classic Movie Review 2900

Director Don Sharp’s sinister 1963 movie The Kiss of the Vampire is a thoughtful and entertaining Dracula-style Hammer horror, with scary sequences and a well-judged good old-fashioned battle between good and evil. Noel Willman, a character […]

Sep, 11

Far from the Madding Crowd *** (2015, Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge) – Movie Review

Bathsheba Everdene is in love with three blokes – well, sort of, and can’t make up her mid about which one, if any she fancies settling down with, Far from the Madding Crowd in Dorset. It’s the […]

Apr, 29

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