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Hennessy *** (1975, Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Eric Porter, Peter Egan) – Classic Movie Review 10,731

Director Don Sharp’s controversial 1975 British topical action thriller Hennessy stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Eric Porter and Peter Egan. British soldiers kill Irish explosives man Niall Hennessy (Steiger)’s wife and […]

Dec, 31

Harlow ** (1965, Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Ginger Rogers, Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield, Jack Kruschen) – Classic Movie Review 10,219

Director Alex Segal’s 1965 Hollywood biopic Harlow stars Carol Lynley and is a fast and fairly feisty biopic of the platinum blonde bombshell star Jean Harlow, filmed simultaneously with the much ritzier Carroll Baker-Angela Lansbury […]

Aug, 24

Harlow ** (1965, Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Martin Balsam, Mike Connors, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 10,218

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1965 Thirties Hollywood biopic Harlow stars Carroll Baker, who is lively if hollow as the platinum blonde bombshell star Jean Harlow, in the Paramount Pictures studio’s plush though not nearly sensational enough […]

Aug, 24

Raffles **** (1939, David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Douglas Walton, Dudley Digges) – Classic Movie Review 9,525

David Niven’s debonair charm is just right for E W Hornung’s celebrated England Test cricketer and amateur cracksman A J Raffles, in the tasty and likeable 1939 crime mystery movie Raffles. David Niven’s debonair charm […]

Mar, 18

Butley **** (1974, Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan, Susan Engel, Michael Byrne, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 8,594

‘His wife just left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.’ Alan Bates gives a dazzling performance in director Harold Pinter’s brilliant 1973 drama film Butley, based on Simon Gray’s masterwork play. ‘His […]

Jun, 15

Chaplin *** (1992, Robert Downey Jr, Geraldine Chaplin, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, John Thaw, Anthony Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 4348

American actor Robert Downey Jr was a controversial choice in the UK as the British silent comic actor and movie star who astoundingly was once the most famous man in the world, both as an […]

Sep, 12

Brubaker *** (1980, Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Tim McIntire, M Emmet Walsh, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark, Albert Salmi) – Classic Movie Review 4009

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller vehicle for Robert Redford is a well-meaning, sincerely done but sombre, unexciting and vaguely depressing prison movie. It is good but it is not Cool Hand Luke. Redford battles […]

Jul, 13

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