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The Ship That Died of Shame [PT Raiders] *** (1955, Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8461

When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]

May, 12

The Crossing [Guo Chun Tian] **** (2018, Huang Yao, Sunny Sun) – Movie Review

Giving an attractive, compelling, credible performance, Huang Yao is a sympathetic young heroine as Peipei, who has spent much of the 16 years of her life travelling between Hong Kong where she studies and Shenzhen […]

Apr, 02

The Rose Tattoo **** (1955, Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan) – Classic Movie Review 7,544

The triple Oscar-winning 1955 film The Rose Tattoo stars a triumphant Anna Magnani, who acts her socks off as the Italian-extracted peasant widow Serafina Delle Rose, in this attractive screen version of Tennessee Williams’s 1951 […]

Sep, 05

Captain Clegg [Night Creatures] **** (1962, Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 6626

Director Peter Graham Scott’s 1962 Hammer Films period adventure is a generally very welcome reworking of novel writer Russell Thorndike’s Dr Syn, with the odd extra Hammer-style horror shock and fright to spruce up the […]

Jan, 30

Dr Syn *** (1937, George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder, Roy Emerton, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 6624

George Arliss’s last movie sees him as Dr Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day but moonlighting as the notorious pirate Captain Clegg by night. Old-style actor Arliss gives an antique barnstorming performance […]

Jan, 30

Double Trouble * (1967, Elvis Presley, Annette Day, John Williams, Chips Rafferty, Norman Rossington) – Classic Movie Review 6260

Director Norman Taurog’s 1967 crime comedy musical is a harmless but really rather ghastly showcase for Elvis Presley, one of his weakest films. Chips Rafferty and Norman Rossington co-star as bumbling gem crooks pursuing rock singer […]

Nov, 15

Night Moves ***½ (1975, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns) – Classic Movie Review 6020

Director Arthur Penn’s dark-toned and unusually complex 1975 psychological thriller stars Gene Hackman as Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby, who tracks a former Hollywood actress’s runaway teenage daughter (played by a very young Melanie […]

Sep, 13

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