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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid ** (1987, Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Ayub Khan-Din, Roland Gift) – Classic Movie Review 11,231

Director Stephen Frears’s 1987 comedy drama Sammy and Rosie Get Laid stars Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Ayub Khan-Din, Frances Barber and Roland Gift. Thirty years on, former Indian government minister Rafi Rahman (Kapoor), returns for […]

May, 22

This Earth Is Mine ** (1959, Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Dorothy McGuire) – Classic Movie Review 10,911

‘I want you… no matter what the price or penalty!’ Claude Rains as Rock Hudson’s grandfather? That’s the kind of half-brained idea that propels director Henry King’s soapy 1959 Universal International Pictures Technicolor and CinemaScope […]

Feb, 13

Tortilla Flat *** (1942, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 10,758

Director Victor Fleming’s 1942 MGM black and white drama Tortilla Flat is a well-acted and appealing version of John Steinbeck’s novel of life among the Mexican-American peasants of Monterey in California. There is plenty of […]

Jan, 06

Peter’s Friends **** (1992, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh) – Classic Movie Review 10,576

‘There are some friends you know you will have for the rest of your life. You’re welded together by love, trust, respect or loss… or in our case, simple embarrassment.’ The 1992 British film Peter’s […]

Nov, 22

The Sign of the Cross *** (1932, Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton) – Classic Movie Review 10,237

Producer-director Cecil B DeMille returned to the Paramount Pictures studio to make the salacious, eye-popping 1932 black and white historical epic The Sign of the Cross, which he turned into a box-office smash, after shooting […]

Aug, 29

Autumn Tale [Conte d’automne] **** (1998, Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre) – Classic Movie Review 9462

Autumn Tale [Conte d’automne] (1998) is the last of Éric Rohmer’s four seasonal tales, preceded by A Tale of Springtime, A Tale of Winter and A Summer’s Tale. It is the fourth film of his […]

Mar, 04

The Bohemian Girl *** (1936, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd, Antonio Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 7368

Directors James W Horne and Charles [Charley] R Rogers’s 1936 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy The Bohemian Girl is another of their operetta send-ups, following The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] (1933). Laurel and Hardy […]

Jul, 29

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