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- 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
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- 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
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Posts Tagged "South Africa"
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Escape from Pretoria **** (2020, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Francis Annan’s real-life thriller Escape from Pretoria is a good old-fashioned prison escape story, with a commendably intense and non-starry performance by Daniel Radcliffe as a Seventies jailed ANC activist who makes a huge […]
Moffie ***** (2019, Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey) – Movie Review
Oliver Hermanus’s beautiful yet brutal study of closeted homosexuality in the Apartheid-era military. Back in the bad old days of Apartheid and the early Eighties, Nicholas ‘Nick’ Van der Swart is a self-denying gay man […]
Cry, the Beloved Country **** (1951, Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8942
Racial tensions in South Africa explode into violence as black preacher the Reverend Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee)’s son kills white landowner James Jarvis (Charles Carson)’s boy, in director Zoltan Korda’s distinguished 1952 British drama Cry, […]
Hell Below Zero *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 6988
Alan Ladd had his second stay in Britain for director Mark Robson’s 1954 murder-at-sea mystery in which, as Duncan Craig, he becomes first mate on a whaler to find out why Judie Nordhal (Joan Tetzel)’s […]
The Huggetts Abroad ** (1949, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark, Dinah Sheridan, Hugh McDermott, Jimmy Hanley, Peter Hammond, Amy Veness) – Classic Movie Review 6983
Ken Annaklin’s spirited 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad is the third in the film trilogy spun off from the popular characters in 1947’s Holiday Camp. Director Ken Annaklin’s 1949 British comedy The Huggetts Abroad […]
Cry Freedom **** (1987, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, Denzel Washington) – Classic Movie Review 5758
Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s stirring and important social conscience 1987 real-life thriller stars Kevin Kline as Donald Woods, chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch, who is forced to escape from South Africa with his […]
Young Winston **** (1972, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins, John Mills, Pat Heywood, Patrick Magee, Edward Woodward, Colin Blakely, Robert Flemyng, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 4642
Director Richard Attenborough’s meticulous, exciting and enjoyable 1972 British historical adventure movie is an ideal subject for him. It is an all-star pageant of Winston Churchill’s early years from his wretched schooldays via serving as […]