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The Circle *** (1925, Eleanor Boardman, Creighton Hale, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B Francis, Eugenie Besserer, George Fawcett, Otto Hoffman, Joan Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7467
Director Frank Borzage brings W Somerset Maugham’s 1921 stage hit The Circle to the screen with some great moments between Eleanor Boardman as Elizabeth Cheney and Creighton Hale as Arnold Cheney in this beautifully shot […]
Quartet **** (1948, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Susan Shaw, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3180
In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]
Of Human Bondage **** (1934, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny, Reginald Sheffield, Kay Johnson, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 2694
Director John Cromwell’s 1934 romantic drama Of Human Bondage stars the 26-year-old Bette Davis, who after three years in the business finally shoots to stardom as the cold and unfeeling trampy cockney waitress Mildred Rogers, who […]
Up at the Villa *** (2000, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1709
Director Philip Haas’s beautiful-looking but shaky 2000 romantic drama stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn. Scott Thomas plays Mary Panton, a holidaying English widow who faces a series of dramas and choices in 1938 Florence, […]
The Letter ***** (1940, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Victor Sen Yung, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 1340
‘Even my agony was a kind of joy!’, yells the great Bette Davis, who sins, kills, lies, cheats and publicly humiliates her forgiving husband Herbert Marshall in director William Wyler’s powerhouse, overwhelmingly haunting 1940 film […]
Secret Agent **** (1936, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young) – Classic Movie Review 385
In 1936 Alfred Hitchcock shrewdly casts the youthful, dashing matinée idol John Gielgud as W Somerset Maugham’s reluctant English espionage hero Richard Ashenden in his 1936 thriller Secret Agent. During the First World War, the […]
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