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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
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Going in Style **** (1979, George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 5269
The 20something Martin Brest directs eminent seniors George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg as three bored golden oldies living on the dole, Joe, All and Willie, who plan and carry out a Queens, New York, […]
Beach Party *** (1963, Robert Cummings, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Vincent Price, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 4918
It’s all here – the Sixties, slapstick, songs, satire, sand, sun, sea, surf, and of course sex! What more can you ask for? Oh, subtlety and sophistication, I suppose. Director William Asher’s 1963 American International […]
The Prisoner of Zenda *½ (1979, Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Stuart Wilson, Jeremy Kemp, Catherine Schell) – Classic Movie Review 4653
Director Richard Quine mistakenly remakes Anthony Hope’s Ruritanian classic as a zany slapstick comedy with the tamest of results. Peter Sellers, however, puts a lot of energy into his two major roles of lisping rightful […]
Folly to be Wise *** (1952, Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 4409
Co-writer, co-producer director Frank Launder’s 1952 British film version of James Bridie’s now faded, not ever too special play It Depends What You Mean, is still mildly amusing, with the delight of Alastair Sim recreating […]
Nashville ***** (1975, Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry Gibson, Michael Murphy, Lily Tomlin, Geraldine Chaplin, Barbara Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4174
Director Robert Altman’s brilliant, many-faceted 1975 kaleidoscopic satirical musical comedy multi-drama Nashville, centred on the town of Nashville’s fund-raising country music concert, is one of this great director’s finest films. There were five Oscar nominations […]
Heat *** (1972, Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman, Pat Ast) – Classic Movie Review 3,137
Heat, the 1972 final part of director Paul Morrissey’s trilogy for producer Andy Warhol, provides a great role for a brilliant Sylvia Miles as a fading actress who falls for a breathtakingly handsome former child […]
Monty Python’s Life of Brian ***** (1979, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2,983
Director Terry Jones’s daring 1979 Monty Python movie Monty Python’s Life of Brian is a controversial triumph and probably sees the Pythons at their peak. This inspired and iconic religious spoof is of course again […]