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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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The Great Gatsby *** (1974, Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 2630
Director Jack Clayton’s painstaking, beguilingly romantic 1974 version of the great F Scott Fitzgerald novel of 1925 is the third movie of the classic work. It is lit up with captivating performances headed by Robert […]
The Falling **** (2014, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Maxine Peake, Greta Scacchi) – Movie Review
The Falling is a unique and special British movie, teasing and haunting. Writer-director Carol Morley’s film is set in a well-constructed 1969 atmosphere at a strict English girls’ school where among the pupils are a couple of […]
Camille ***** (1936, Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 1985
Director George Cukor’s 1937 vintage tragic romance movie stars Greta Garbo, perfectly cast and at her most luminous finest. After two famous classic silent movie versions in 1921 and 1927, finally there is a talkie […]
Hamlet *** (1990, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Ian Holm, Alan Bates) – Classic Movie Review 1294
Co-writer/director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1990 Shakespeare movie has an unexpected star in Mel Gibson, who personifies the much-tormented Prince of Denmark lustily and honourably, giving a strong, earnest performance. It was a brave thing to do since Gibson’s only […]
Macbeth **** (1971, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 774
Jon Finch does well in a fine, tragic hero film performance as the 10th century nobleman and tormented Scottish king Macbeth in director Roman Polanski’s lavish, great-looking and much underrated movie of the play by […]
White Squall **** (1996, Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Ryan Phillippe, Scott Wolf, Ethan Embry, Jeremy Sisto) – Classic Movie Review 654
Jeff Bridges stars as sea captain Christopher ‘Skipper’ Sheldon, who teaches a bunch of teenage lads the ropes aboard ships, in this 1996 thrilling, old-style high-seas adventure. It’s based on a real tale in 1960 when […]
Romeo and Juliet ***** (1968, Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Michael York, Pat Heywood, Milo O’Shea, John McEnery, Robert Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 437
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s double-Oscar winning 1968 version of William Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy play Romeo and Juliet is a gorgeous and glorious affair. Promoted from an Italian TV production to a cinema movie when Paramount […]