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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
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
Posts Tagged "World War One"
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Journey’s End **** (1930, Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 3043
Journey’s End (1930) was a huge success and launched the film careers of James Whale and Colin Clive, who stayed on in America to make Frankenstein (1931) together. Debut film director James Whale’s 1930 early […]
La Grande Illusion [Grand Illusion] ***** (1937, Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Jean Dasté) – Classic Movie Review 2790
Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s 1937 humanist and pacifist masterwork about two French officers being captured World War One is one of the great treasures of French and indeed world cinema. It is based on Renoir’s own […]
Doctor Zhivago ***** (1965, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness, Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 2692
Director David Lean’s lovingly made 1965 movie version of Boris Pasternak’s great Russian novel stars Omar Sharif as the Moscow doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago, who is embroiled in the horrors of the Russian revolution and […]
For Me and My Gal **** (1942, Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 2511
The bells are certainly ringing for director Busby Berkeley’s rousing 1942 MGM patriotic and romantic musical that pairs Judy Garland with Gene Kelly for the first time and also stars George Murphy as fellow hoofer […]
The Water Diviner *** (2014, Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney) – Movie Review
It’s good to see the gentler side of Russell Crowe for his good-hearted directorial debut. He also stars as an Australian farmer called Connor, who travels to Turkey in 1919 to try to locate his […]
Carrington *** ( Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington) – Classic Movie Review 1708
Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1995 drama provides another peep behind the scenes of English literature dissecting the odd, platonic but deep relationship between the sexually confused painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) and gay writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce), […]
A Farewell To Arms ** (1957, Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio de Sica) – Classic Movie Review 1246
Producer David O Selznick in 1957 turns Ernest Hemingway’s complex, famous world-classic 1929 semi-autobiographical novel into a bloated Hollywood romance in this overlong, overblown and underwhelming remake of the 1932 film with Gary Cooper and […]