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One Night in Lisbon *** (1941, Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Edmund Gwenn, Billie Burke, John Loder, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 11,097

’36 hours of love!…’ Director Edward H Griffith’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white screwball comedy One Night in Lisbon is the welcome and enjoyable if uninspired fourth and penultimate paring of the delightful Madeleine […]

Apr, 14

Hotel Imperial ** (1939, Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J Carrol Naish, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 10,942

‘TRAPPED BY LOVE IN THE MAD MAELSTROM OF WAR! ‘ Director Robert Florey’s 1939 drama Hotel Imperial stars Italian actress Isa Miranda as Anna Warschawska, a dancer from the Balkans who masquerades as a chambermaid […]

Feb, 20

Against the Wind *** (1948, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, John Slater, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis) – Classic Movie Review 10,940

Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]

Feb, 19

Penny and the Pownall Case ** (1948, Ralph Michael, Peggy Evans, Diana Dors, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,878

Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]

Feb, 04

Ring of Spies **** (1964, Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack) – Classic Movie Review 10,846

Director Robert Tronson’s 1963 black and white real-life crime thriller Ring of Spies [Ring of Treason] is an involving, realistic film of the infamous Sixties Portland Spy Ring case in Britain. Bernard Lee gives a […]

Jan, 29

I Was a Spy *** (1933, Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn) – Classic Movie Review 10,829

‘TO ANSWER THE LURE OF HER LIPS WAS FATAL!’ Director Victor Saville’s 1933 I Was a Spy stars Madeleine Carroll as Marthe Cnockaert, a real-life World War One nurse who in German-occupied Belgium in 1914 […]

Jan, 25

Stopover Tokyo *** (1957, Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 10,812

After two box-office disappointments, it seemed that Robert Wagner was unable to make the transition to top-level star. This appeared confirmed when he was the lead in Stopover Tokyo (1957), a CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour […]

Jan, 20

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