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Under the Clock [The Clock] ***** (1945, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) Classic Movie Review 3612

Based on a story by Paul and Pauline Gallico, director Vincente Minnelli’s exquisite 1945 wartime romance is an utterly lovely, totally beguiling movie. Judy Garland stars as Alice Maybery, a World War Two working girl, who meets, […]

Apr, 24

Night People *** (1954, Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen) – Classic Movie Review 3498

Producer-writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s nimble and nifty 1954 Cold War suspense thriller Night People stars Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel and Buddy Ebsen, who greatly help to enliven the story about the […]

Mar, 24

All Quiet on the Western Front ***** (1930, Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray) – Classic Movie Review 3426

Director Lewis Milestone is true to the seriousness and pacificism of German author Erich Maria Remarque’s novel in this astonishing film to come out of Hollywood, which still has the ability to shock and move […]

Feb, 28

Dad’s Army **** (1971, Arthur Lowe, John le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender, Bill Pertwee, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 3,315

Director Norman Cohen’s 1971 vintage British comedy film Dad’s Army is set in 1939 in Walmington-on-Sea, England, where George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), manager of St Martin’s Bank, forms the town’s platoon of the Local Defence […]

Feb, 02

X the Unknown ***½ (1956, Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley, William Lucas) – Classic Movie Review 3161

‘It rises from 2000 miles below the earth to melt everything in its path!’ That fine American star character actor Dean Jagger comes to the UK in 1956 to star as canny old Doctor Adam […]

Dec, 17

Mediterraneo **** (1991, Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti, Ugo Conti) – Classic Movie Review 3087

Director Gabriele Salvatores’s charming, easy-going 1991 Italian movie, dedicated to ‘all those who are running away’, is a highly appealing piece of film-making that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1992. Based on […]

Nov, 24

The Hunchback of Notre Dame *** (1982, Anthony Hopkins, Lesley-Anne Down, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Robert Powell, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 2667

Taking a trick or two out of Charles Laughton’s book, Anthony Hopkins greatly impresses as the hunchback Notre Dame Cathedral bellringer Quasimodo in director Michael Tuchner’s lavish, starry and highly entertaining 1982 British-based TV movie […]

Jul, 05

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