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What We Know [El que sabem] *** (2021, Javier Amann, Nakarey, Tania Fortea, Fran Morales, Rosita Amores, Mauro Cervera) – Classic Movie Review 12,627

Jordi Núñez’s unusual Spanish coming-of-age ensemble romantic drama is fresh feeling, insightful and funny. Everybody loves the captivating Victor (Javier Amann). Waitress Carla (Nakarey) thinks she has a chance and so does Martí (Mauro Cervera). […]

Aug, 28

Captain Pirate *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 9377

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1952 swashbuckling action adventure Captain Pirate [Captain Blood Fugitive] is the improved Technicolor sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and is based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel Captain Blood Returns. It again […]

Feb, 13

Sea Fury *** (1958, Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 7843

Director Cy Endfield’s 1958 British movie Sea Fury presents a tale of adventure, romance and drama on salvage tug boats sailing between Spain and England. Stanley Baker stars as second-in-command handsome English sailor Abel Hewson […]

Nov, 27

Il Rosso Segno della Follia [A Hatchet for the Honeymoon] [Blood Brides] *** (1970, Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, Femi Benussi) – Classic Movie Review 7825

Director Mario Bava’s typically stylish 1970 giallo film Il Rosso Segno della Follia [A Hatchet for the Honeymoon] stars Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, and Femi Benussi. The screenplay is written by Santiago Moncada. Stephen Forsyth stars as the handsome, 30-year-old John Harrington, […]

Nov, 23

Anchor and Hope [Ancora si speranta] **** (2017, Natalia Tena, Oona Chaplin, David Verdaguer, Geraldine Chaplin, Charlotte Atkinson, Trevor White) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s quirky comedy of personal relationships Anchor and Hope (2017) is really quite special. It is richly enjoyable, very funny, touching and thoughtful, with four lovely performances in memorable characters, as well as […]

Sep, 11

The Mission **** (1986, Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6558

Director Roland Joffé’s religious-minded 1986 British anti-war film stars Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel, a saintly 18th-century Spanish priest, whose Jesuit mission in South America is closed by a papal order. But Robert De Niro also […]

Jan, 14

Arise, My Love **** (1940, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Dennis O’Keefe, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 5177

Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland are delightful as a vivacious American reporter in Europe and the dashing aviator she helps out of tight scrapes at the end of the Spanish Civil War and the start of […]

Mar, 19

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