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Butley **** (1974, Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O’Callaghan, Susan Engel, Michael Byrne, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 8,594

‘His wife just left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.’ Alan Bates gives a dazzling performance in director Harold Pinter’s brilliant 1973 drama film Butley, based on Simon Gray’s masterwork play. ‘His […]

Jun, 15

The Student Prince ** (1954, Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, John Williams, Edmund Gwenn, S Z Sakall, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 6886

Sigmund Romberg’s classic operetta The Student Prince is stodgily filmed by MGM in 1954, but nothing stops those vintage Romberg melodies. Mario Lanza’s beautiful tenor voice soars on the soundtrack, but he is nowhere to […]

Apr, 04

Decline and Fall… of a Birdwatcher ** (1968, Robin Phillips, Genevieve Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier Leo McKern, Kenneth Griffith, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6331

Director John Krish’s 1968 comedy is a dodgy, unstylish film of Evelyn Waugh’s masterwork satirical (partly autobiographical) novel, now unfortunately updated to the Swinging Sixties, hence is alternate title of Decline and Fall… of a […]

Nov, 29

The Wild and the Willing [Young and Willing] ** (1962, Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, Ian McShane, Samantha Eggar John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 4960

Director Ralph Thomas’s 1962 romantic drama takes a lurid look at British redbrick college life, depicting the lives of a group of students at university. It is seen through a once steamy lens, in the […]

Jan, 29

Casanova ***½ (2005, Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin) – Classic Movie Review 2131

Though hardly the most obvious casting, Aussie boy Heath Ledger is sexy, amusing and likeable as vintage Italian lover Giacomo Casanova in director Lasse Hallström’s lightweight but entertaining 2005 American romantic period romp Casanova, loosely based […]

Jan, 29

Private’s Progress *** (1956, Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, William Hartnell) – Classic Movie Review 1847

Co-writer/director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1956 vintage British comedy Private’s Progress stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas and William Hartnell. The Boulting Brothers take the risk of sending up the then […]

Nov, 16

Lucky Jim **** (1957, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith, Maureen Connell, Sharon Acker, John Welsh) – Classic Movie Review 1845

Director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1957 movie Lucky Jim is a Fifties British comedy classic, based on the famed novel by Kingsley Amis – one of his very best. Ian Carmichael enjoys a […]

Nov, 16

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