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Three Faces West *** (1940, John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 7463

‘GUILTY…OF DARING TO LOVE AND LIVE! ‘ Three Faces West is directed in 1940 by New York City-born film-maker Bernard Vorhaus, a graduate of Harvard University, for Republic Pictures, where contract player John Wayne had finally become […]

Aug, 18

The Lady Consents ** (1936, Ann Harding, Herbert Marshall, Margaret Lindsay, Walter Abel, Edward Ellis) – Classic Movie Review 6866

There are bleeding hearts aplenty in director Stephen Roberts’s well-played by extremely trite little 1936 melodrama in which Herbert Marshall plays Doctor Michael J Talbot who divorces his selfless wife Anne Talbot (Ann Harding) for […]

Mar, 27

The Killing of a Sacred Deer **** (2017, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Alicia Silverstone) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark and sinister drama is his keenly anticipated follow-up to The Lobster (2015). It is very much in the same spirit, a largely impenetrable, impeccably crafted old-style art movie, catnip for film […]

Oct, 12

Devil’s Island [Song of Hell] *** (1939, Boris Karloff, James Stephenson, Nedda Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 5629

Director William Clemens’s searing, realistic and revelatory 1939 drama stars Boris Karloff who gives a splendidly full-blooded performance as Dr Charles Gaudet, a brain surgeon condemned to the dreaded French Devil’s Island penal colony for […]

Jun, 18

House Calls **** (1978, Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 5,395

Director Howard Zieff’s 1978 screwball comedy film House Calls stars Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, who make an unlikely but delightful romantic comedy team, in this funny doctoring satire set against a hospital background. Matthau […]

May, 05

Battle Circus ** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith) – Classic Movie Review 4272

Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson seem to be ideally cast as Major Jed Webbe, a cynical, boozy army major surgeon, and Lieutenant Ruth McGara, an idealistic, altruistic nurse, who fall in love while working in a […]

Aug, 31

Petulia *** (1968, Julie Christie, George C Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Knight, Pippa Scott) – Classic Movie Review 3,537

Richard Lester takes us back to the San Francisco-style kookie Swinging Sixties era, in the interesting but shaky 1968 romantic drama film Petulia. Julie Christie stars as the Arch Kook Petulia, a zany young British […]

Apr, 06

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