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Keep Smiling ** (1938, Gracie Fields, Roger Livesey, Mary Maguire) – Classic Movie Review 11,601

Lancashire lass Gracie Fields gets the glossy 20th Century Fox treatment in director Monty Banks’s 1938 British comedy musical film Keep Smiling [Smiling Along], an amusing if undemanding tale of the mishaps that befall a […]

Sep, 26

Le Silence Est d’Or [Man About Town] *** (1947, Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien) – Classic Movie Review 10,236

Set around the turn of the last century (it is 1910), writer/ producer/ director René Clair’s mildly charming 1947 Le Silence Est d’Or [Silence Is Golden] [Man About Town] is his first movie back home […]

Aug, 28

Miss Marple: Nemesis *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Anna Cropper, Margaret Tyzack, Valerie Lush, Helen Cherry, John Horsley, Peter Tilbury, Frank Gatliff) – Classic Movie Review 9,632

The inventive 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis again stars Joan Hickson, who investigates her eighth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Unusually for this faithful series, it […]

Apr, 13

Intermezzo *** (1936, Ingrid Bergman, Gösta Ekman, Inga Tidblad) – Classic Movie Review 6678

Co-writer/ director Gustaf Molander’s unfairly neglected Swedish original 1936 film of the classic 1939 Hollywood romance Intermezzo sees Ingrid Bergman as the gorgeous young musician Anita Hoffman falling in love with married, older concert violinist Professor Holger Brandt (Gösta […]

Feb, 11

Don’t Look Back **** (1967, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, Alan Price, Allen Ginsberg, Albert Grossman) – Classic Movie Review 4313

Bob Dylan’s tour of the UK in 1965 comes under the scrutiny of director D A Pennebaker’s cameras in a deservedly famous, pioneering 1967 fly-on-the-wall rockumentary, which has a sharp eye for the boredom of the […]

Sep, 07

Still Crazy **** (1998, Bill Nighy, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, Billy Connolly, Jimmy Nail) – Classic Movie Review 1696

Director Brian Gibson’s 1998 rock comedy is a hilarious, poignant hoot. It is a simple but great idea for a movie, brilliantly carried out, with a delicious screenplay by veteran TV comedy experts Dick Clement and Ian La […]

Sep, 21

Almost Famous **** (2000, Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand) – Classic Movie Review 610

Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning 2000 film is a semi-autobiographical treat from the maker of Jerry Maguire. Patrick Fugit (aged 18) stars in his feature debut as William Miller,  a thrilled 15-year-old rock fan, who long […]

Jan, 02

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