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Sailors Three *** (1940, Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Michael Wilding, Carla Lehmann, Jeanne De Casalis, James Hayter, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 10,739

Walter Forde’s 1940 British black and white comedy film Sailors Three is a silly, happy, likeable World War Two patriotic Ealing Studios musical farce, with Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert and Michael Wilding.  Director Walter Forde’s […]

Jan, 02

The Actress *** (1953, Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Anthony Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 7142

Actress Ruth Gordon turned her early life as a stage-struck Massachusetts teenager into a Broadway play, Years Ago, and now into a film, director George Cukor’s 1953 The Actress, for which she writes the screenplay. […]

Jun, 09

Lord Jim *** (1965, Peter O’Toole, James Mason, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Jack Hawkins, Daliah Lavi, Curt Jurgens, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 6342

Richard Brooks’s 1965 film adaptation the gloomy 1900 Joseph Conrad novel was always going to be difficult to film and hard going. But Peter O’Toole is excellent as Lord Jim and there is good star […]

Dec, 01

Querelle *** (1982, Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau) – Classic Movie Review 3949

Writer-producer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1982 film adaptation of the legendary Jean Genet novel Querelle de Brest, which deals lustily with homosexual love, prostitution, drugs and crime, is visually, sexually and emotionally extravagant and lurid. Set […]

Jun, 29

The Lady from Shanghai ***** (1947, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 747

Dusting himself off in 1947 after all his troubles on Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles writes, produces, directs and stars in the teasing, exhilarating 1947 film noir tour de force The Lady […]

Jan, 25

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