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French Dressing ** (1964, James Booth, Marisa Mell, Roy Kinnear, Alita Naughton, Sandor Elès, Bryan Pringle) – Classic Movie Review 9078

Director Ken Russell’s first feature French Dressing (1964) is a British satirical seaside farce with Marisa Mell as a French starlet taken up by Gormleigh-on-Sea’s deckchair man and lady reporter as the local kind of […]

Nov, 19

Bank Shot *** (1974, George C Scott, Joanna Cassidy, Sorrell Booke, Clifton James, Bob Balaban) – Classic Movie Review 8853

Director Gower Champion’s 1974 comedy crime thriller Bank Shot stars George C Scott as Walter Ballantine, who leads a gang with a novel idea in bank heists – actually uprooting and driving away an entire […]

Aug, 22

The System [The Girl-Getters] **** (1964, Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris) – Classic Movie Review 7767

Oliver Reed was already enjoying a good little career in Hammer horrors when young director Michael Winner picked him as the star of this 1964 black and white youth sex drama The System [The Girl-Getters] […]

Nov, 09

The Ghost and Mrs Muir **** (1947, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Anna Lee, Natalie Wood, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 6,567

The 1947 fantasy comedy drama film The Ghost and Mrs Muir stars Gene Tierney as the widowed Mrs Lucy Muir, who buys a haunted home on the English coast. Lucy is befriended by the ghost […]

Jan, 16

Pauline at the Beach [Pauline à la Plage] **** (1983, Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasie, Pascal Greggory, Féodore Atkine, Simon de la Brosse) – Classic Movie Review 4493

In the third of French writer-director Eric Rohmer‘s series of films Comedies and Proverbs, Parisians talk up a storm about manners and morals on a Normandy beach in a story about two cousins (Amanda Langlet […]

Oct, 19

Fun in Acapulco ** (1963, Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Paul Lukas, Alejandro Rey, Elsa Cárdenas) – Classic Movie Review 2627

Director Richard Thorpe delivers a fair fun 1963 vehicle for Elvis Presley, who stars as Mike Windgren, a circus trapeze artist high-flyer with a fear of heights. So, with the help of little boy Raoul […]

Jun, 22

Mr Hulot’s Holiday [Les Vacances de M Hulot] ***** (1953, Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Louis Pérault) – Classic Movie Review 2408

French comedy genius Jacques Tati lets his hilariously clumsy Monsieur Hulot loose in a French beachside hotel for his beloved alter ego’s first film appearance. Joining the post-war holiday-making classes, Monsieur Hulot goes for an August […]

Apr, 19

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