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Thursday’s Child **½ (1943, Sally Ann Howes, Wilfrid Lawson, Kathleen O’Regan, Stewart Granger) – Classic Movie Review 10,903
Director Rodney Ackland’s 1943 Thursday’s Child is a pleasant, well-made if slight little suburban family drama that has plenty of charm and appeal, though British distributors of the day neglected it. Sally Ann Howes stars […]
Term of Trial *** (1962, Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 10,559
The compelling 1962 British realist drama film Term of Trial is about a student (Sarah Miles) who develops a crush on her schoolteacher (Laurence Olivier), leading him into serious trouble. ‘I always knew she was […]
The Aviator’s Wife [La femme de l’aviateur] **** (1981, Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 9460
The Aviator’s Wife [La Femme de l’Aviateur] (1981) is an excellent conversation piece from Eric Rohmer (the opening one of his Comédies et Proverbes series) about a young Frenchman François (Philippe Marlaud) and the eponymous […]
Mad About Music *** (1938, Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 9365
Director Norman Taurog’s 1938 Mad about Music stars Deanna Durbin as Gloria Harkinson, the sweet young girl who enlists a visiting nice chap English composer Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall) to play her pop when she is left […]
Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] ** (1971, Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 8149
Director Sidney Hayers’s 1971 British mystery crime drama Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] stars Frank Finlay as Detective Chief Superintendent Velyan, who hunts for a serial rapist killer of young women in an English village. This […]
The Wildcats of St Trinian’s * (1980, Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern, Joe Melia, Thorley Walters, Rodney Bewes, Maureen Lipman, Julia McKenzie) – Classic Movie Review 5743
Writer-director Frank Launder revived Ronald Searle’s anarchic St Trinian’s schoolgirls for a fifth movie after a 14-year gap in this 1980 British comedy, and seemed to forget to put in the laughs. Launder’s original screenplay […]
The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s *** (1960, Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Thorley Walters, Dennis Price, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2797
Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s less entertaining 1961 number three in the comedy film franchise brings back the hellish schoolgirls from Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s cartoons, who now torch their school and are recruited for an Arab’s harem. It […]