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The Three Weird Sisters *** (1948, Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 12,185

Director Daniel Birt’s 1948 British melodrama film The Three Weird Sisters is based on Charlotte Armstrong’s novel The Case of the Weird Sisters, and stars Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Nova Pilbeam and Raymond Lovell. Dylan Thomas had a […]

Jun, 20

The Corn Is Green *** (1979, Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 10,371

Katharine Hepburn stars in director George Cukor’s touching 1979 made-for-TV version of Emlyn Williams’s famous semi-autobiographical 1938 hit play The Corn Is Green (which originally starred Ethel Barrymore) about an 1890s Welsh unmarried teacher and […]

Oct, 01

Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] *** (1952, Leslie Dwyer, Lisa Daniely, Brian Worth, Sandra Dorne, Ronald Adam, Joan Hickson, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 9,735

The 1952 British drama film Hindle Wakes [Holiday Week] is a decently crafted, enjoyable film of Stanley Houghton’s famed 1912 play about an independently minded English north country mill girl (Lisa Daniely) enjoying a holiday […]

May, 09

The Silent Village **** (1943, Villagers of Cwmgiedd) – Classic Movie Review 9153

Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1943 World War Two what if? documentary The Silent Village tells how it could have happened in Wales if there had been similar Nazi atrocities there to those perpetrated in 1942 on […]

Dec, 13

A Dark Song *** (2016, Steve Oram, Catherine Walker, Mark Huberman, Susan Loughnane) – Movie Review

Steve Oram and Catherine Walker star as the damaged occultist Mr Solomon and the determined, traumatised Sophia who hires him to spend months together in an isolated Welsh mansion to perform a dangerous ritual so she […]

Apr, 11

The Constant Husband [Marriage a la Mode] *** (1955, Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey, George Cole, Raymond Huntley, Jill Adams, Valerie French) – Classic Movie Review 4512

That sterling high-comedy actor Rex Harrison was lured back from Hollywood to British movies again with co-producer/ co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s daft piece of fluff 1955 comedy film, with a delightful cast of players, most […]

Oct, 23

Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent [Anne and Muriel] **** (1971, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Jean-Pierre Léaud) – Classic Movie Review 3014

François Truffaut’s tantalising period romantic drama finds him returning to the love triangle theme he earlier profitably mined in Jules et Jim (1963) and La Peau Douce (1964). It tells the story of a French […]

Oct, 29

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