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The Hunted ***½ (1948, Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin) – Classic Movie Review 3674

Director Jack Bernhard’s 1948 thriller is an expert, tense and moody film noir, in which Preston Foster stars as a cop probing a gem theft who finds his main squeeze (Belita) may be the criminal […]

May, 08

Night and the City ***½ (1992, Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman, Alan King, Jack Warden, Eli Wallach, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 3372

Robert De Niro plays Harry Fabian, a cheating, fast-talking New York lawyer embroiled in shady boxing promotions, in Irwin Winkler’s classy 1992 updated remake of Jules Dassin’s 1950 film noir Night and the City. Robert […]

Feb, 17

Bedazzled *** (1967, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch, Barry Humphries, Michael Bates) – Classic Movie Review 3321

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1967 British comedy is a slick and amusing vehicle for the beloved comedy team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, who also provide the original story, with the screenplay credited to Cook. And Moore also […]

Feb, 04

Wonderland **** (1999, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Ian Hart, John Simm, Stuart Townsend) – Classic Movie Review 3046

Michael Winterbottom’s 1999 drama of working-class Londoners Bill (Jack Shepherd) and Eileen (Kika Markham) and their three lonely grown-up daughters is a typically intense, effective and  gloomy tale. They are cafe waitress Nadia, (Gina McKee ) […]

Nov, 09

The Petrified Forest ***** (1936, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 2702

Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]

Jul, 19

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 […]

Jul, 13

Pure **** (2002, Harry Eden, Molly Parker, Keira Knightley, David Wenham, Geraldine McEwan, Karl Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 2687

Harry Eden does a commendably adult job in his first role as Paul, a 10-year-old kid who tries to look after his sickly mother (Molly Parker) and younger brother after his dad’s death. But things […]

Jul, 11

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