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Ask a Policeman **** (1939, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 6623

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1939 British comedy vehicle for loveable rogue comics Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt is unmissable for their many fans. Hay stars as Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot, and Marriott and Moffatt […]

Jan, 30

Return of the Seven ** (1966, Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Fernando Rey, Emilio Fernández) – Classic Movie Review 6576

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 movie brings Yul Brynner’s welcome return as hired gun Chris Adams in this acceptable but less magnificent sequel to perhaps everybody’s favourite Western, The Magnificent Seven (1960). The trouble is that […]

Jan, 18

La guerre des boutons [War of the Buttons] *** (1962, André Treton, Michel Isella, Jacques Dufilho, Yvette Etiévant, Michel Galabru) – Classic Movie Review 6464

Boys from rival French villages wage war on each other, led by André Treton and Michel Isella, cutting off their prisoner’s buttons and belts. Director Yves Robert’s 1962 French film is an engagingly acted comedy […]

Dec, 24

Hitler’s Madman [Hitler’s Hangman] *** (1943, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 6381

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]

Dec, 09

Vendetta *** (1950, Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Donald Buka, Hillary Brooke, Nigel Bruce, Joseph Calleia, Hugo Haas) –  Classic Movie Review 6013

Steamy Faith Domergue stars as the femme fatale from Corsica, Colomba della Rabia, who sets out to avenge herself on the family’s murderous opponents who killed her father. In her avowed murderous task, she is […]

Sep, 11

Went the Day Well? ***** (1942, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 5993

Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1943 British classic for Ealing Studios stars Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton and Basil Sydney. It is a most compelling film of Graham Greene’s famous wartime warning fantasy story (The Lieutenant […]

Aug, 29

Man of Aran **** (1934, Colman ‘Tiger’ King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane) – Classic Movie Review 5720

Writer/ cinematographer/ director Robert J Flaherty’s notable 1934 documentary feature film of life on the Isle of Aran in North Ayrshire features the real fishermen and crofter people, and shows their various struggles to live. (By […]

Jul, 06

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