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What the Butler Saw ** (1950, Edward Rigby, Henry Mollison, Mercy Haystead) – Classic Movie Review 11,040

‘Get an eyeful of this!’ Director Godfrey Grayson’s hour-long farcical 1950 black and white British comedy What the Butler Saw is made by Hammer Films and stars Edward Rigby, Henry Mollison and Mercy Haystead in […]

Mar, 24

From Noon Till Three *** (1976, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley) – Classic Movie Review 10,405

Writer-director Frank D Gilroy’s 1976 From Noon Till Three stars Charles Bronson, who admirably tries to stretch himself by extending his range in this offbeat adult comedy Western satire that tackles the Western myth by […]

Oct, 12

Rachel and the Stranger **** (1948, Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 9,512

The 1948 Western film Rachel and the Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as Indian scout Jim, who visits a backwoods cabin in the 1820s and falls for purchased bride Rachel (Loretta Young), whose jealous husband Big […]

Mar, 16

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders ** (1965, Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer, Angela Lansbury, Leo McKern, Daniel Massey, Vittorio De Sica) – Classic Movie Review 9170

Floundering Flanders  ‘I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.’ Paramount clearly wanted to turn Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel into a cash-in on the success of 1963’s Tom Jones […]

Dec, 19

Upstairs and Downstairs ***(1959, Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, James Robertson Justice, Sidney James, Daniel Massey, Claudia Cardinale, Joan Hickson, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 7912

It is party time at the home of newly-weds Richard and Kate Barry (Michael Craig and Anne Heywood) in director Ralph Thomas’s 1959 comedy Upstairs and Downstairs, a late-Fifties British sitcom-type study of the perils […]

Dec, 16

Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] ***** (1988, Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun) – Classic Movie Review 7878

Director Zhang Yimou’s dazzlingly brilliant 1988 Red Sorghum [Hong gao liang] is a masterly epic drama from China that charts the life of a teenage bride (Gong Li), from her wedding in the 1930s up […]

Dec, 03

Miss Julie ** (1999, Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7713

Writer-producer-director Mike Figgis’s 1999 British film Miss Julie is an interesting but stagey and sluggish rendition of August Strindberg’s world classic play, with actory performances, too many hand-held camera and too-large close-ups, in which the […]

Oct, 28

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