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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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The Blood of Others [Le Sang des Autres] * (1984, Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 6267
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1984 World War Two drama, set in German occupied Paris under the horrors of Nazism, is very strongly cast but over-long at 135 minutes and struggling. Brian Moore adapts the novel by […]
The Longest Day **** (1962, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Richard Todd, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 5928
This three-hour 1962 blockbuster epic presents the story of the Allied 1944 D-Day Normandy landings according to Cornelius Ryan’s bestseller, producer Darryl F Zanuck and 20th Century Fox. All of them must share the authorship […]
The Raggedy Rawney *** (1987, Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Nathenson, Zoë Wanamaker) – Classic Movie Review 5466
Co-writer/ director Bob Hoskins directs and stars in this 1987 British anti-war film, set in a European country in the midst of a bloody war. It features Dexter Fletcher as an androgynous young soldier called […]
The Night Porter [Il portiere di notte] *** (1974, Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 4599
Ah yes, there is no such thing as bad publicity, though occasionally there is such a thing as a bad film, and back in 1974 many people thought this sensationalist, provocative movie was one. Director […]
The Clay Pigeon **** (1949, Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, Richard Loo, Frank Fenton, Martha Hyer, Frank Wilcox) – Classic Movie Review 4309
Director Richard Fleischer’s neat and short (63 minutes) 1949 black and white film noir movie The Clay Pigeon is one of those vintage Forties thrillers with the familiar but usually effective set-up of an amnesiac […]
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin ** (2001, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 3085
Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]
King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422
George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]