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- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
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South Pacific *** (2001, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Rade Serbedzija) – Classic Movie Review 2182
Director Richard Pearce’s 2001 TV movie remake of the 1958 big-screen favourite is bright, tuneful, well made and handsomely produced, as Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic 1949 Broadway musical comes to the small screen […]
Shenandoah **** (1965, James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 2047
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s exciting vehicle for the 57-year-old James Stewart, who was still a major star and box-office attraction in 1965, is a near-classic Western soap opera that mixes action and melodrama to good […]
Nanny McPhee **** (2005, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Celia Imrie, Imelda Staunton) – Classic Movie Review 1834
Emma Thompson and Colin Firth star in director Kirk Jones’s delightful, magical 2005 family fantasy comedy film Nanny McPhee, with expert performances and a super wicked sense of humour. Thompson stars as a Mary Poppins-style […]
The Misfits ***** (1961, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 1365
Director John Huston’s and playwright/screenwriter Arthur Miller’s 1961 modern-day Western is brilliantly strange and striking. It focuses on the lives of a quartet of loveable losers (‘the misfits’), who embark on a chase for symbolic horses against […]
The Farmer’s Wife *** (1928, Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill) – Classic Movie Review 1,334
Alfred Hitchcock’s seventh movie The Farmer’s Wife is this modestly engaging 1928 silent romantic comedy film of the Eden Phillpotts hit stage play about grumpy widowed farmer Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who seeks a new […]
Holiday **** (1938, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1,259
George Cukor’s 1938 classic romantic comedy film Holiday is the perfect example of the Hollywood screwball comedy of remarriage that its stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant specialised in and made their own. Director George […]
The American President ***½ (1995, Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J Fox, John Mahoney, Samantha Mathis, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 945
Producer-director Rob Reiner’s 1995 romantic comedy drama stars Michael Douglas as widowed US President Andrew Shepherd, who seizes his chance for love and goes after political lobbyist journalist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening). This amusing, […]