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The Queen ***** (2006, Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory) – Classic Movie Review 11,104

Helen Mirren is absolutely brilliant in the title role of Queen Elizabeth II in the vastly entertaining 2006 biographical drama film, sweeping all before her on the way to winning the Academy Award for Best […]

Apr, 17

When We Are Married **** (1943, Sydney Howard, Raymond Huntley, Olga Lindo) – Classic Movie Review 10,435

Director Lance Comfort’s 1943 comedy When We Are Married is a very welcome film version of the appealing 1938 J B Priestley English Northcountry play about three sanctimoniously respectable Victorian silver wedding couples – The […]

Oct, 19

Portrait of Alison *** (1955, Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 10,255

Director Guy Green’s 1955 black and white British mystery crime film Portrait of Alison [Postmark for Danger] is an amazingly convoluted and satisfyingly entertaining whodunit thriller, based on Francis Durbridge’s popular Fifties TV serial, about […]

Sep, 01

D-Day the Sixth of June ** (1956, Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter) – Classic Movie Review 9034

Director Henry Koster’s 1956 D-Day the Sixth of June stars Robert Taylor and Richard Todd as married US officer Captain Brad Parker (Taylor) and British colonel Lt. Col. John Wynter (Todd) are both in love […]

Oct, 31

My Childhood **** (1972, Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8807

The Bill Douglas Trilogy, made on tiny budgets from the British Film Institute, are dour and downbeat, highly personal autobiographical films, but they cast a remarkable spell in terms of mood and emotion that is […]

Aug, 09

Scott of the Antarctic ***** (1948, John Mills, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2828

Director Charles Frend’s 1948 British historical adventure classic provides the showcase for one of John Mills’s most admired, tightly reined-in heroic performances as the quixotic British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Mills’s great performance brings […]

Aug, 18

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