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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
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- 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
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Capricious Summer [Rozmarné léto] **** (1968, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák, Jana Drchalová, Jirí Menzel) – Classic Movie Review 9261
Co-writer/ director/ star Jiri Menzel’s 1968 Czech film Capricious Summer [Rozmarné léto] delivers a diverting, well-characterised, sadness-tinged comedy mistily and delicately set in the past. Menzel plays the tightrope balancer Arnostek and Jana Drchalová [Jana […]
Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] ***** (1946, Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D’Arnoux) – Classic Movie Review 8979
Director Jean Renoir’s delightful 1946 French short feature film Une Partie de Campagne [A Day in the Country] – poetic, humorous and evocative – is a cinematic milestone. Set in 1860, Renoir’s carefully constructed, exquisitely […]
The Workshop [L’atelier] **** (2017, Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Florian Beaujean) – Movie Review
Marina Foïs stars as middle-aged Paris writer Olivia, who comes to the formerly prosperous, now depressed shipyard town La Ciotat, near Marseilles, one summer to hold a literary workshop for a small group of seven late teenagers […]
Confessions from a Holiday Camp ** (1977, Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Bill Maynard, Sheila White, Doris Hare, Liz Fraser, Linda Hayden, John Junkin, Lance Percival, David Auker) – Classic Movie Review 6,876
The gang is back for the 1977 sex comedy film Confessions from a Holiday Camp, the fourth and final saucy outing, revealing what Timmy Lea (Robin Askwith) and Sid Noggett (Anthony Booth) get up to […]
Meatballs *** (1979, Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Kristine DeBell, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Cindy Girling, Todd Hoffman, Keith Knight, Chris Makepeace) – Classic Movie Review 6519
Director Ivan Reitman hits it big in 1979 with his first mainstream movie, an amiable if fairly crass teen comedy about a load of nincompoops enjoying summer on a holiday camp – a well tried and […]
Marjorie Morningstar ** (1958, Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Edd Byrnes, George Tobias, Jesse White, Paul Picerni, Ruta Lee, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 6317
Director Irving Rapper’s intriguing and glossy but uncomfortable 1958 romantic drama film adaptation of The Winds of War writer Herman Wouk’s sincere novel – surprisingly at the time the most-read book since Gone with the Wind – […]
Ava **** (2017, Noée Abita, Laure Calamy, Juan Cano) – Movie Review
Noée Abita gives an extraordinary, knockout performance as the 13-year-old Ava, who is spending the summer at the seaside on the French sandy coast with her single mum Maud (Laure Calamy) and baby sister. Ava […]