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The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] *** (1961, Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 7765

Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1961 The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] is an engagingly old-fashioned romantic rites-of-passage tale by Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden about an English teenage girl called Joss Grey (Susannah York) who falls in […]

Nov, 09

The Hate U Give **** (2018, Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, K J Apa, Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie, Common) – Movie Review

Amandla Stenberg gives a stellar performance as troubled high school teen Starr Carter, in director George Tillman Jr’s epic crime/ race drama The Hate U Give. Audrey Wells writes a very convincing, well organised screenplay based on […]

Oct, 27

License to Drive [Licence to Drive] * (1988, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham) – Classic Movie Review 7676

The title of director Greg Beeman’s 1988 film License to Drive [Licence to Drive] focuses audience attention on exactly what bad boy Les Anderson (Corey Haim) hasn’t got. He failed his driving test, but that doesn’t […]

Oct, 19

The Moon-Spinners *** (1964, Hayley Mills, Peter McEnery, Eli Wallach, Joan Greenwood, John le Mesurier, Pola Negri, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 7351

Director James Neilson’s 1964 British adventure The Moon-Spinners is the Walt Disney film where child star Hayley Mills is finally allowed to grow up and get her man. Alas it does not really add any […]

Jul, 26

A Little Romance *** (1979, Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard ) – Classic Movie Review 6985

Director George Roy Hill’s sweet and entertaining 1979 romantic comedy movie stars Laurence Olivier as Julius, an old storytelling pickpocket who befriends a couple of teenage brats and gets them to run away with him […]

May, 01

Candleshoe *** (1977, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 6814

Director Norman Tokar’s 1977 British film for children is an amusing Disney adventure comedy, with a jolly script and a superb cast of scene-stealers. Leo McKern plays small-time crook Harry Bundage, who dupes American urchin Casey Brown […]

Mar, 17

The Youngest Profession *** (1943, Virginia Weidler, Jean Porter, Edward Arnold, John Carroll, Agnes Moorehead, Ann Ayars, Marta Linden, Dick Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 6564

Director Edward Buzzell’s pleasant 1943 movie-business-based romantic comedy is based on a book by Lillian Day. Virginia Weidler and Jean Porter star as autograph-hunting young friends Joan Lyons and Patricia Drew, who wander around the […]

Jan, 15

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