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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
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Daisy Miller ** (1974, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6913
Cybill Shepherd stars as the Henry James heroine Daisy Miller in producer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s classy and sumptuous period romantic comedy drama of manners. If it has its charms, certainly visually, it can nevertheless still seem […]
Only the Brave *** (2017, Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges) – Movie Review
Josh Brolin stars as Eric Marsh, the head of the Prescott, Arizona, Fire Department who gets approval from the Mayor to organise a Hotshot front line forest fire fighting crew in 2007. He recruits and […]
House of Sand and Fog **** (2003, Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jonathan Ahdout, Kim Dickens, Frances Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 5646
Two people try to follow their own idea of the American dream – with disastrous results. Co-writer/ producer/ director Vadim Perelman’s superlative, provocative 2003 movie version of a hit novel by André Dubus III is […]
Love Story *** (1970, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland) – Classic Movie Review 4,193
Ryan O’Neal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for the 1970 romantic drama film Love Story. The success of Easy […]
Julius Caesar ** (1950, Harold Tasker, Charlton Heston, David Bradley) – Classic Movie Review 3387
Charlton Heston plays Marc Antony in writer-producer-director David Bradley’s enterprising 1950 film version of the play, notable as the first with sound. Harold Tasker plays Julius Caesar and David Bradley gives himself the role of Brutus. Bradley […]
Oedipus the King **** (1968, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Orson Welles, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack, Roger Livesey, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 3274
That great actor Christopher Plummer is stupendous as Oedipus in co-writer/director Philip Saville’s brave and imaginative attempt to film the classic Sophocles Greek tragic play. And Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer and Richard Johnson are marvellous also as the doomsayer […]
Countess Dracula **** (1971, Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Elès) – Classic Movie Review 2781
Co-writer/director Peter Sasdy’s 1971 Hammer Films horror tale stars Ingrid Pitt as the aging widowed Countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, who discovers that she can become young again if she bathes in the blood of young virgins. […]