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Cluny Brown **** (1946, Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 2634

Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch’s last completed film is the 1946 sophisticated romantic comedy Cluny Brown, set in pre-World War Two England, getting its laughs out of satirising the smugness of British high society. Jennifer Jones stars as […]

Jun, 23

Witness for the Prosecution **** (1957, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O’Connor, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2576

Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s excellent 1957 movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious if a shade creaky London-set courtroom thriller is witty, suspenseful and hugely entertaining. Christie’s 1952 international stage success is based on her 1925 short story Traitor’s […]

Jun, 09

Cavalcade **** (1933, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 2215

Director Frank Lloyd’s 1933 drama Cavalcade is a creaky but still entertaining and stirring nostalgic movie version of Noël Coward’s sentimental English patriotic pageant stage play. It was a three-Oscar winner, for Best Picture, Best Director […]

Feb, 26

The Informer **** (1935, Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 2133

John Ford’s four-Oscar-winning 1935 film The Informer has not worn too well, straining for effect, while Victor McLaglen’s acting is a faded gem. But The Informer is still a considerable achievement and an admired cinema […]

Jan, 30

The Invisible Man ***** (1933, Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, E E Clive, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 778

The Invisible Man (1933) is one of the great Universal horror movies. Claude Rains became an overnight star as scientist Dr Jack Griffin, who invents an invisibility serum and turns himself invisible, but then terrorises […]

Jan, 31

The Bride of Frankenstein ***** (1935, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor, Valerie Hobson, Gavin Gordon, Dwight Frye, Douglas Walton, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 32

Director James Whale’s 1935 sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein arguably turned out to be even better than the original, and confidently stakes its claim to being THE classic horror film of all time. Ernest Thesiger etches […]

Jul, 08

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