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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
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- 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
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Sophie’s Choice **** (1982, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 4498
Writer-producer-director Alan J Pakula’s quietly devastating 1982 film, faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by William Styron, stars Meryl Streep, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Sophie, the enigmatic Polish survivor of Nazi concentration […]
Gentleman’s Agreement **** (1947, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, Dean Stockwell, Jane Wyatt, June Havoc, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 4472
Director Elia Kazan’s first film concerned with personal and social issues was his 1947 triple Oscar-winning film dealing with anti-Semitism in America. It won the Best Picture and Best Director awards and was as successful as […]
Sleuth **** (2007, Michael Caine, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 4337
Michael Caine and Jude Law – who played Caine’s old role in the underrated 2004 remake of Alfie – are perfect casting in yet another Caine remake – this time his 1972 hit thriller Sleuth, […]
ChickLit ** (2016, Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Caroline Catz, Miles Jupp, David Troughton, Tom Palmer, Eileen Atkins, John Hurt) – Movie Review
Christian McKay, Miles Jupp, David Troughton and Tom Palmer star as four guys trying to save their local pub from closing by writing a chick lit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey-style ‘mummy porn’. McKay takes it to cynical London […]
Stalker ****½ (1979, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alisa Freyndlikh) – Classic Movie Review 4210
Director-cinematographer Andrei Tarkovsky’s brilliantly cerebral, uniquely disturbing 1979 Russian film tells a tantalisingly oblique and mystifying story about about a Stalker (Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy) who guides two intellectuals through the so-called Zone, a forbidden area of […]
La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199
Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]
Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051
Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]