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Night Mail ***** (1936, documentary) – Classic Movie Review 9445

Directors Harry Watt and Basil Wright 1936 Night Mail is the stirring and beautiful classic 1930s British documentary short, turning into poetry the apparently mundane subject of the special overnight mail train journey from London to […]

Feb, 29

Girl Stroke Boy (1971, Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern, Clive Francis, Peter Straker) – Classic Movie Review 9340

Director Bob Kellett’s 1971 comedy Girl Stroke Boy is an excruciatingly unfunny, ultra-tacky and tasteless ‘adult’ comedy written by the normally tasteful Ned Sherrin and Caryl Brahms, both of whom should have known better. It […]

Feb, 02

The Old Fashioned Way **** (1934, W C Fields, Baby LeRoy, Joe Morrison, Judith Allen, Nora Cecil) – Classic Movie Review 9333

Director William Beaudine’s agreeably raucous and extremely funny 1934 W C Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way sees the star at his grouchiest as The Great McGonigle, the blustery actor-manager head of a group of […]

Feb, 01

Tracks *** (1976, Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 9018

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1976 drama Tracks stars Dennis Hopper as Vietnam veteran sergeant Jack Falen, who accompanies the funeral casket of a dead comrade in arms on an epic train journey across the US to […]

Oct, 25
The Password Is Courage **** (1962, Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Reginald Beckwith) – Classic Movie Review 8,866

The Password Is Courage **** (1962, Dirk Bogarde, Maria Perschy, Alfred Lynch, Nigel Stock, Reginald Beckwith) – Classic Movie Review 8,866

Andrew L Stone’s expert 1962 black and white war drama film The Password Is Courage stars Dirk Bogarde, who is on good form as Sgt Major Charlie Coward, the Brit who kept escaping and being […]

Aug, 25

You Can’t Win ‘Em All ** (1970, Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson, Michèle Mercier, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 8650

Unlikely co-stars Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson enjoy their roles and their repartee as joking ex-US Army mercenary sparring partners Adam Dyer and Josh Corey, hired by (Grégoire Aslan), in embattled Turkey in the civil […]

Jun, 28

Kid Blue *** (1973, Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson, Lee Purcell, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 8536

Director James Frawley’s 1973 Kid Blue has a legendary cast that includes Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson, Lee Purcell, Janice Rule, M Emmet Walsh, Ralph Waite, Clifton James and Howard Hesseman. Ben […]

Jun, 02

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