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A Letter to Three Wives **** (1949, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Barbara Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 2416
Writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Cleopatra) won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay for his work on this delightful 1949 suburban satire, examining the thorny question of husband and wife relationships. […]
Pickup on South Street ***** (1953, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 2069
Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s brutal 1953 hard-boiled Cold War spy film noir thriller is a little masterpiece of its kind, one of the cult film-maker’s great noir classics. Richard Widmark stars at his arrogant, menacing snarling […]
Pillow Talk **** (1959, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 1718
The 1959 film Pillow Talk sparked off Doris Day and Rock Hudson’s series of profitable hit comedy movies. They teamed for three films and this is the best of them. Day was Oscar nominated as […]
Birdman of Alcatraz **** (1962, Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 1438
In director John Frankenheimer’s 1962 classic, Burt Lancaster gives one of his finest performances as the notorious and violent but mild-mannered real-life jailed killer Robert Stroud, who is locked away in Leavenworth Prison in 1912 for murdering […]
The Misfits ***** (1961, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 1365
Director John Huston’s and playwright/screenwriter Arthur Miller’s 1961 modern-day Western is brilliantly strange and striking. It focuses on the lives of a quartet of loveable losers (‘the misfits’), who embark on a chase for symbolic horses against […]
Miracle on 34th Street ***** (1947, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne) – Classic Movie Review 508
In a fondly remembered performance that won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, a perfectly cast Edmund Gwenn is a twinkling miracle as merry old Kris Kringle in this delicious 1947 Christmas fantasy film about […]
All About Eve ***** (1950, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 76
‘Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night’ – Margo Channing. Writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1950 American drama film All About Eve stars Bette Davis as aging Broadway star Margo Channing and Anne Baxter as ambitious […]