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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
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Scream for Help ** (1984, Rachael Kelly, Marie Masters, David Allen Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 9102
Producer-director Michael Winner’s undistinguished 1984 woman in jeopardy movie Scream for Help offers loopy horror antics when a teenager, Christie Cromwell (Rachel Kelly), realises that her stepfather is trying to kill her and her mother. […]
The Lion ** (1962, William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine, Pamela Franklin) – Classic Movie Review 8935
Director Jack Cardiff’s 1962 romantic action adventure drama The Lion stars William Holden as American lawyer Robert Hayward, who goes to Africa to visit his ex-wife Christine (Capucine) on a wildlife reserve in Kenya, where […]
Too Many Parents *** (1936, Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews, Porter Hall, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 7241
Frances Farmer (19 September 1913 – 1 August 1970) made her film debut in Too Many Parents (1936). Alas, she was destined to make only 15 films, and is now more famous for her tragic story than her […]
Secret Ceremony *** (1968, Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown) – Classic Movie Review 5846
Dressed to the nines in Dior, Elizabeth Taylor plays a high-class hooker called Leonora, who acts as surrogate mum to haunted young Cenci (Mia Farrow), in director Joseph Losey’s really oddball 1968 British character study […]
Radio Flyer *** (1992, Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Adam Baldwin, Ben Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 5766
Director Richard Donner’s tentative but often moving 1992 story stars Elijah Wood and Joseph Mazzello as two kid brothers retreating into a fantasy world in which they concoct a scheme for a flying machine after […]
David Copperfield ***** (1935, Freddie Bartholomew, W C Fields, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, Roland Young, Maureen O’Sullivan, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 3941
Director George Cukor’s ingratiatingly involving, meticulously painstaking, gloriously handsome 1935 MGM production of Charles Dickens’s beloved novel David Copperfield is a marvellous movie entertainment that boasts a wealth of memorable vintage acting turns. They come […]
Transamerica **** (2005, Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan) – Classic Movie Review 3936
Felicity Huffman gives a brave and brilliant performance as Bree, a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual who takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), now a teenage runaway hustling […]