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Never Let Me Go ** (1953, Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Richard Haydn, Belita, Bernard Miles, Kenneth More, Karel Stepanek, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 7789

Director Delmer Daves’s 1953 Never Let Me Go is a humdrum romantic adventure from Clark Gable, the erstwhile king of Hollywood, playing Philip Sutherland, a US newsman stationed in Moscow who falls for and marries Russian […]

Nov, 15

When Ladies Meet *** (1941, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, Herbert Marshall, Spring Byington) – Classic Movie Review 7504

‘Hollywood Parade Of Stars In Gay Romance’ – sounds appealing, huh? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have another go in 1941 at filming Rachel Crothers’s 1932 play following their 1933 movie When Ladies Meet with Ann Harding, Robert […]

Aug, 27

When Tomorrow Comes *** (1939, Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil) – Classic Movie Review 6673

Director John M Stahl’s 1939 romantic drama re-teams Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer following their hit with the classic Love Affair (1939). Restaurant waitress Helen Lawrence (Dunne) and celebrated married concert pianist Philip Chagal (Boyer) have a […]

Feb, 10

The Single Standard *** (1929, Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, John Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Lane Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 5323

Director John S Robertson’s soapy 1929 silent movie drama, based on Adela Rogers St Johns’s 1928 romantic novel, is remembered, if at all, really only because it stars Greta Garbo. But that is enough! Garbo […]

Apr, 20

Knife in the Water [Nóz w wodzie] **** (1962, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz) – Classic Movie Review 3946

Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s 1962 Polish first feature film tells of a bored, aging husband and wife couple, Andrjez and Krystyna (Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka) whose bourgeois conformism is shaken up by a hitch-hiking beatnik young man (Zygmunt […]

Jun, 29

White Squall **** (1996, Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Ryan Phillippe, Scott Wolf, Ethan Embry, Jeremy Sisto) – Classic Movie Review 654

Jeff Bridges stars as sea captain Christopher ‘Skipper’ Sheldon, who teaches a bunch of teenage lads the ropes aboard ships, in this 1996 thrilling, old-style high-seas adventure. It’s based on a real tale in 1960 when […]

Jan, 08

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