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The Swan **** (1956, Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Brian Aherne, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 3981

Director Charles Vidor’s 1956 romantic drama movie is MGM’s wedding gift to Grace Kelly, who quit the movies and her glittering star career to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco. MGM released the film on her wedding […]

Jul, 05

The Miracle Worker ***** (1962, Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson) – Classic Movie Review 3509

Securing the role against studio choices Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman or Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Bancroft re-creates her Tony-winning Broadway stage performance as the devoted but determined Boston teacher Annie Sullivan, who tutors and cares for […]

Mar, 30

Hearts Divided *** (1936, Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Arthur Treacher, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 3448

Dick Powell plays Napoleon’s younger brother Captain Jerome Bonaparte. But it is Marion Davies as Betsy Patterson, a Baltimore woman he loves and marries, who stars in the well-made 1936 film Hearts Divided Dick Powell […]

Mar, 04

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers **** (1946, Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 2165

Director Lewis Milestone’s deservedly much admired 1946 thriller The Strange Love of Martha Ivers mixes film noir with steamy melodrama. The result is this fascinating and riveting excursion into one woman’s nightmare. It is notable […]

Feb, 10

The Mighty **** (1998, Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone) – Classic Movie Review 1799

Director Peter Chelsom’s 1998 drama is a captivatingly imaginative and original heartbreaker, based on the Rodman Philbrick novel Freak the Mighty. In the story, a 13-year-old misfit called Maxwell Cullen (Elden Henson) finds his life […]

Nov, 03

Tom Jones ***** (1963, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, David Warner, Joan Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 1479

In 1963 movie-goers across the globe fell in love with Albert Finney’s entrancing rogue Tom Jones, and director Tony Richardson’s classic is still as fresh, clever, exciting and exhilarating as the day it was made. […]

Jul, 26

The Taming of the Shrew **** (1967, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael York, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Alfred Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 1118

Director Franco Zeffirelli brings immense zest, impressive vitality and glorious colour to his 1967 film of the William Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew, while ideally cast and on-form, fired-up Richard Burton and Elizabeth […]

Apr, 19

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