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Stella Dallas **** (1937, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Barbara O’Neil, Anne Shirley, Tim Holt, Marjorie Main, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3176

Director King Vidor’s incomparable 1937 version of the tear-jerker soap opera tale of a warm and gutsy but slatternly lower-class woman who sacrifices herself for her daughter was previously filmed in 1925, and remade as Stella in […]

Dec, 20

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors *** (1965, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Max Adrian, Roy Castle) – Classic Movie Review 3115

Peter Cushing stars in Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) as a mysterious fortune teller called Dr Terror who reads the tarot cards to tell the future of five fellow passengers aboard a British train. […]

Nov, 30

Silver Streak **** (1976, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan) – Classic Movie Review 3066

Writer Colin Higgins and director Arthur Hiller’s sparkling 1976 train-set comedy thriller Silver Streak has a golden streak and is a hilarious suspense ride. It was the start of a winning partnership of four star […]

Nov, 15

Les Mistons [The Mischief-Makers] *** (1957, Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont, Michel François) – Classic Movie Review 3019

François Truffaut’s charming and revealing 1957 nostalgic short is his first professional film. Financed by his film distributor wife Madeleine Morgenstern and filmed on location in Nimes with five local boys as the Mistons (Mischief-Makers), […]

Oct, 31

Howl ***½ (2015, Ed Speleers, Holly Weston, Shauna Macdonald, Amit Shah, Sam Gittins, Elliot Cowan, Sean Pertwee, Duncan Preston, Rosie Day, Ania Marson) – Movie Review

Train guard/ ticket collector Joe (Ed Speleers) is having a very bad day. First he’s passed over for promotion and then the train his new boss sends him out on is attacked by werewolves! But […]

Oct, 09

Shanghai Express ***** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette) – Movie Review 2950

Director Josef von Sternberg’s richly enjoyable 1932 romantic adventure again stars his protégée Marlene Dietrich, who appears on her finest form as a notorious ‘lady of the sleeping cars’, Shanghai Lil. The infamously loose woman […]

Oct, 03

The Palm Beach Story ***** (1942, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee) – Classic Movie Review 2923

Writer-director Preston Sturges’s marvellous 1942 American classic stars Claudette Colbert as a wife called Gerry Jeffers, who runs away from penniless inventor husband Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea) and takes off for Florida’s Palm Beach. There she soon […]

Sep, 23

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