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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Hue and Cry ***** (1947, Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 1653
Director Charles Crichton’s 1947 Hue and Cry is notable and historically important as the first of the Ealing comedies, leading the way for Britain’s Ealing Studios classics of the late Forties and Fifties. But Crichton’s splendid comedy adventure […]
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ***** (1960, Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Bryan Pringle, Shirley Anne Field, Norman Rossington, Hylda Baker) – Classic Movie Review 1,476
Director Karel Reisz’s compelling and convincing 1960 movie version of Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling 1958 first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning made a new international star out of Albert Finney, almost overnight. Finney plays the […]
Look Back in Anger ***** (1959, Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Claire Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 1474
Director Tony Richardson admirably brings so-called ‘Angry Young Man’ playwright John Osborne’s famous, world-renowned play for London’s Royal Court Theatre to the screen in 1959 with all its challenging words, raging spirit and anti-establishment appeal […]
A Taste of Honey ***** (1961, Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Robert Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 1,473
Tony Richardson’s classic 1961 British realist drama film A Taste of Honey is a splendid memorial to both Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin. Co-writer/ director Tony Richardson’s classic 1961 British realist drama A Taste of Honey […]
Twenty Four Seven ***½ (1997, Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum) – Classic Film Review 479
Bob Hoskins enjoys himself enormously in a tailor-made role as Alan Darcy, an inspired visionary who sets up a boxing club for a bleak English Midlands town’s dissolute youth. His diaries chart the lads’ comic […]
Howards End ***** (1992, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Samuel West, Prunella Scales, Jemma Redgrave, James Wilby) – Classic Movie Review 449
James Ivory’s triple Oscar-winning 1992 film is in many ways his masterpiece, certainly a close tie with The Remains of the Day (1993). Director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant’s third adaptation of an E M […]
The Selfish Giant **** (2013, Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder) – Movie Review
Hailed as one of 2013’s best British films, this is a bleak and depressing Brit social realist movie, set around the desolate Bradford outskirts. This is a god-forsaken place, where appallingly ugly, semi-declined housing estates back on […]