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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
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- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
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- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
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Posts Tagged "village"
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Dr Renault’s Secret **½ (1942, J Carrol Naish, John Shepperd, George Zucco, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5074
‘HALF-MAN…HALF-MONSTER!…A strange tale torn out of the depths of terror! His animal instinct cannot be tamed!’ George Zucco stars as the creepy Doctor Robert Renault, who has invented a technique mixing a secret serum with […]
The Return of Martin Guerre [Le Retour de Martin Guerre] **** (1982, Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Sylvie Meda) – Classic Movie Review 4985
Co-writer/ director Daniel Vigne’s highly popular and successful 1982 romantic crime drama, based on the novel by Janet Lewis, finds Gérard Depardieu at a career peak. Depardieu does well, taking on a for him unusual quiet dignity […]
Disha [The Uprooted] *** (1990, Om Puri, Nana Patekar, Shabana Azmi, Raghuvir Yadav) – Classic Movie Review 4922
The once ubiquitous Om Puri, who died on 6 January 2017, aged 66, stars in writer-director Sai Paranjape’s involving, atmospheric and insightful 1990 Hindi drama about family life in a rural village setting, focusing on the […]
Uncertain Glory ** (1944, Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Douglass Dumbrille, Faye Emerson, Dennis Hoey) – Classic Movie Review 4755
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1944 spirit-raising (i e wartime propaganda) romantic adventure drama Uncertain Glory stars Errol Flynn as Jean Picard, a womanising French criminal who flees the guillotine during an air raid in World War Two […]
Johnny Frenchman ** (1945, Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Paul Dupuis, Ralph Michael, Frederick Piper, Arthur Hambling, Richard George, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4694
Director Charles Frend’s well-meaning 1945 wartime drama is an unusually weak Ealing Studios production – one of their rare disappointments – about fishing rivalry between Cornish and Breton fishermen in the English or French Channel, […]
Brigadoon ***½ (1954, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 4690
Director Vincente Minnelli’s sweet 1954 musical stars winsome Gene Kelly and Van Johnson, who play two American tourists who get lost in the Scottish woodlands and stumble across Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that comes […]
Casualties of War ***** (1989, Michael J Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C Reilly, John Leguizamo, Sam Robards, Ving Rhames) – Classic Movie Review 4429
Director Brian De Palma’s 1989 movie is one of his half-dozen masterworks. Indeed it is a flawed masterpiece, and will come as a serious surprise to those who know De Palma only for Carrie, Blow […]