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Virgin Sacrifice (1960, David DaLie, Angélica Morales, Antonio Gutiérrez, Fernando Wagner, Linda Cordova) – Classic Movie Review 11,598
‘A new kind of Jungle Drama. Actually filmed in Guatemala and featuring members of the savage Vicuni Indian tribe!’ Director Fernando Wagner’s 1960 exploitation adventure movie Virgin Sacrifice is set in the Amazon jungle and […]
High Art *** (1998, Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson) – Classic Movie Review 9001
Writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s 1998 romantic drama High Art stars Radha Mitchell as a young woman intern whose magazine career is on the rise, thanks to her relationship with a once beautiful lesbian photographer (Ally Sheedy), […]
La Traviata **** (1982, Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil) – Classic Movie Review 8822
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous, thrilling 1982 Italian film version of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s The Lady of the Camelias [La dame aux camélias], is a glossy paean to the […]
Fame Is the Spur *** (1947, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Margaret Johnston, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton, Jean Kent, Marie Lohr, Garry Marsh, David Horne, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 4431
The Boulting Brothers’ 1947 British film adaptation of Howard Spring’s book Fame Is the Spur, chronicling the rise and disillusionment of a British Labour Party politician, Hamer Radshaw (Michael Redgrave), is a solid if not […]
The City of the Dead [Horror Hotel] *** (1960, Christopher Lee, Dennis Lotis, Patricia Jessel, Betta St John, Valentine Dyall, Venetia Stevenson, Tom Naylor) – Classic Movie Review 4288
College professor Christopher Lee sends his student Venetia Stevenson to a creepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft, in John Moxey’s rough-edged but effective 1960 British horror movie The City of the Dead [Horror Hotel]. Venetia […]
Despite the Falling Snow *** (2016, Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance, Anthony Head) – Movie Review
Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Charles Dance are all first rate in writer-director Shamim Sarif’s smart-looking, involving and intriguing old-style Cold War romantic spy thriller. The excellent Rebecca Ferguson stars as Fifties Moscow communist spy Katya, […]
Stella Dallas **** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Barbara O’Neil, Anne Shirley, Tim Holt, Marjorie Main, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3176
Director King Vidor’s incomparable 1937 version of the tear-jerker soap opera tale of a warm and gutsy but slatternly lower-class woman who sacrifices herself for her daughter was previously filmed in 1925, and remade as Stella in […]