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The Dark Angel **** (1935, Merle Oberon, Fredric March, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 5693

Director Sidney Franklin’s 1935 romance stars the formidable trio of Merle Oberon, Fredric March and Herbert Marshall, and is an Academy Award winner as its production designer Richard Day won an Oscar for Best Art […]

Jul, 02

Beau Geste **** (1926, Ronald Colman, Ralph Forbes, Neil Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 5412

Director Herbert Brenon’s 1926 French Foreign Legion adventure movie Beau Geste is an outstanding silent film classic version of Percival Christopher Wren’s famous 1924 novel tale of English upper-crust brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste (played […]

May, 07

Hotel Rwanda **** (2004, Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 5347

Don Cheadle is on scalding form as Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life manager of a Rwandan hotel that proved a safe haven for hundreds of refugees in 1994 as the Hutu tribe waged genocide on the […]

Apr, 26

Rain *** (1932, Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 5339

The two richly enjoyable. extravagant star performances of Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are the main recommendation for Lewis Milestone’s 1932 quick remake for the Somerset Maugham short story Miss Thompson (later retitled Rain), a silent […]

Apr, 23

The Divine Woman (1928, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman) – Classic Movie Review 5332

The divine woman just has to be Greta Garbo, who radiates allure in her fifth (silent) Hollywood role and first big star part as Marianne, a character obviously based on her fellow thespian, Sarah Bernhardt, […]

Apr, 21

Jacob’s Ladder ***½ (1990, Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 5197

Director Adrian Lyne’s eerie, eye-catching 1990 horror movie finds Tim Robbins climbing the ladder to stardom in a stalwart performance as the divorced, traumatised Vietnam vet, New York postal worker Jacob Singer, who is troubled by […]

Mar, 25

The Long and the Short and the Tall [Jungle Fighters] *** (1961, Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 5153

‘Raw emotions bared!’ Director Leslie Norman’s 1961 British film version of Willis Hall’s classic 1959 stage play The Long and the Short and the Tall stars Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, David McCallum and Ronald Fraser. […]

Mar, 14

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