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- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
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These Three **** (1936, Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea) – Classic Movie Review 5684
Because of the strict movie censorship rules of the Thirties, Lillian Hellman’s lesbian Broadway play The Children’s Hour couldn’t be filmed properly until 1962, when it was filmed under its proper title of The Children’s […]
Porky’s ** (1981, Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson, Kim Cattrall, Art Hindle) – Classic Movie Review 5650
Writer-director Bob Clark’s irrepressibly, joyfully vulgar and smutty 1981 Canadian coming-of-age sex comedy Porky’s hit the jackpot, following in the wake of Animal House (1978). It cost only $5 million and earned $106 million at […]
The Rainbow *** (1989, Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings, Glenda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 5454
Co-writer/ producer/ director Ken Russell’s provides his 1989 film prequel to his own Women in Love (1969), in which he adapts D H Lawrence’s tale of the Brangwen family to focus on the intellectual and sexual […]
Heavenly Pursuits *** (1986, Tom Conti, Helen Mirren, David Hayman) – Classic Movie Review 5438
Tom Conti stars as Vic Mathews, the remedial teacher in a Roman Catholic school in Glasgow whose ‘miracles’ arouse large-scale media interest. This deft and delightful 1986 satire on the pitfalls of modern religion is […]
Children of a Lesser God **** (1986, William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco) – Classic Movie Review 5,249
Piper Laurie was Oscar nominated as Best Supporting Actress for the rousing 1986 spirit-lifting drama film Children of a Lesser God, with Marlee Matlin winning a Best Actress Oscar in her film début at 21 […]
The Little Princess *** (1939, Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Cesar Romero, Mary Nash, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 5187
Director Walter Lang’s 1939 musical comedy family drama stars Shirley Temple, who bursts into colour for the first time in films – and glorious Technicolor at that! – and that seems to have inspired one […]
The Long Day Closes **** (1992, Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates, Anthony Watson) – Classic Movie Review 5.154
Writer-director Terence Davies’s lovely 1992 British labour of love film The Long Day Closes is his first since his 1988 Distant Voices, Still Lives, and is the third film in his entrancing autobiographical trilogy. Leigh […]