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- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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The Bookshop ** (2017, Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review
The Bookshop (2017) tells an interesting, if minor, small-scale nostalgia story, with mixed results. On the plus side, the three main performances of Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Honor Kneafsey are all very good, credible, involving and […]
Theodora Goes Wild *** (1936, Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 7193
Director Richard Boleslawski’s amusing 1936 vintage comedy Theodora Goes Wild stars the Oscar-nominated Irene Dunne, who gets her laughs as Theodora Lynn, a small-town librarian who writes a titillating bestseller under the pseudonym Caroline Adams […]
The Fugitive Kind *** (1960, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani) – Classic Movie Review 6948
‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]
HouseSitter *** (1992, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat, Peter MacNicol) – Classic Movie Review 6899
Director Frank Oz’s 1992 fantasy romantic comedy HouseSitter is uneven, but it is always an amiable and inoffensive entertainment, and in its best stretches it is very funny. Steve Martin stars as Newton Davis, a […]
Vigilante Force *** (1976, Kris Kristofferson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Victoria Principal, Bernadette Peters, Brad Dexter, Judson Prat) – Classic Movie Review 6740
The Seventies low-budget American satirical action film Vigilante Force (1976) is written and directed by George Armitage, who says producer Gene Corman came to him with just the title and he did the rest. ‘It was a good shoot, […]
L’Homme du Train [Man on the Train] **** (2002, Johnny Hallyday, Jean Rochefort, Jean-François Stévenin) – Classic Movie Review 6729
‘Two strangers with nothing in common are about to trade their lives for a chance to cheat their destinies.’ Director Patrice Leconte’s deliciously quirky and richly enjoyably 2002 French thriller presents the irresistibly attractive prospect […]
Raggedy Man *** (1981, Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 6629
Sissy Spacek, fresh from her Oscar for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), gets her husband Jack Fisk to direct her as Nita Longley, a spunky wartime divorcée, whose two sons are jealous when handsome sailor Eric Roberts arrives […]