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Elephant Walk ** (1954, Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 6418

Elizabeth Taylor enlivens director William Dieterle’s tepid, clichéd 1954 potboiler adventure movie about a romantic triangle on a Ceylon tea plantation, based on the novel by Robert Standish. Taylor plays lovely English rose Ruth Wiley, the new wife […]

Dec, 17

The Assam Garden **** (1985, Deborah Kerr, Madhur Jaffrey, Alex McCowen, Zia Mohyeddin, Iain Cuthbertson Anton Lesser, Ronald Russell) – Classic Movie Review 6164

Director Mary McMurray’s tender and poignant 1985 drama brings back Deborah Kerr to the cinema after a 16-year layoff (since The Arrangement in 1969) as Englishwoman Helen, an ex-Raj widow who returns to England and the […]

Oct, 31

Crimetime * (1996, Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost) – Classic Movie Review 5876

Stephen Baldwin stars as a much-resting young actor who develops a growing empathy with a supposed real-life serial killer (Pete Postlethwaite) he takes a job portraying on a TV show that re-creates the killer’s crimes. […]

Aug, 08

The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1332

‘Moderation is a vastly over-rated virtue.’ – Miss Lilly Moffat. Director Irving Rapper directs Bette Davis in the 1945 drama The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher dismayed by the […]

Jun, 17

Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107

This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]

Jul, 30

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