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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

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622

Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]

Jun, 21

Witchfinder General [The Conqueror Worm] **** (1968, Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Patrick Wymark, Hilary Dwyer, Nicky Henson) – Classic Movie Review 2,580

Vincent Price stars in one of his best horror roles as the true-life 17th-century witchfinder Matthew Hopkins, in the chilling 1968 film Witchfinder General [The Conqueror Worm]. Vincent Price stars in the 1968 film Witchfinder […]

Jun, 10

The Beguiled **** (1971, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris) – Classic Movie Review 2577

Producer-director Don Siegel’s 1971 cult Civil War Western chiller is a rich and strange, and often quite beautiful movie. It was Siegel’s favourite of his films. It reunites him with Clint Eastwood, who stars as […]

Jun, 09

King and Country **** (1964, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 2532

Director Joseph Losey’s 1964 film stars Tom Courtenay as Private Hamp, a slightly dim, uncomprehending First World War soldier who walks shell shocked away from the rat-infested Passchendaele trenches and is arrested for desertion. [Spoiler […]

May, 28

Von Ryan’s Express **** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Edward Mulhare, Brad Dexter, John Leyton, Raffaella Carrà) – Classic Movie Review 2,481

Allied prisoners of war make a daring escape by hijacking their freight train and fleeing through German-occupied Italy to Switzerland, in the 1965 World War Two adventure film Von Ryan’s Express, starring Frank Sinatra. Director […]

May, 14

La Ciociara [Two Women] **** (1961, Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown) – Classic Movie Review 2361

Sophia Loren won Best Actress awards at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and the 1962 Oscars for her glorious tour-de-force in the 1961 drama film La Ciociara [Two Women], the first non-English-language performance to win […]

Apr, 05

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