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Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] ***** (1952, Raf Vallone, Lucia Bosé, Romolo Bartolomeo, Lea Padovani, Massimo Girotti) – Classic Movie Review 12,113

The 1952 Italian film Rome Eleven O’Clock [Roma, Ore 11] is perhaps Giuseppe De Santis’s finest picture, a Neorealist look at postwar unemployment in an urban setting, entirely free from the banal melodrama and sex […]

May, 11

Ring of Fear ** (1954, Clyde Beatty, Pat O’Brien, Mickey Spillane) – Classic Movie Review 10,848

A circus is the setting for this odd 1954 suspense adventure Ring of Fear about a lunatic lovelorn ringmaster (Sean McClory) who, in a jealous rage, causes havoc in the big top with the help […]

Jan, 29

Cone of Silence [Trouble in the Sky] ** (1960, Michael Craig, Peter Cushing, Bernard Lee, George Sanders, Elizabeth Seal, André Morell) – Classic Movie Review 9693

Peter Cushing stars away from his usual horror territory as a pompous pilot called Captain Judd in director Charles Frend’s intriguing if slackly paced 1960 mystery drama Cone of Silence [Trouble in the Sky], based […]

Apr, 30

Percy * (1971, Hywel Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Elke Sommer) – Classic Movie Review 9330

Director Ralph Thomas’s desperate 1971 British sleaze comedy Percy is about a pioneering penis transplant, in which frenzied recipient Edwin Anthony (Hywel Bennett) looks for the perfect donor. It could have been worse — just […]

Feb, 01

The Other **** (1972, Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky) – Classic Movie Review 8780

The Other (1972) is a very fine, carefully handled mystery horror movie from director Robert Mulligan. Chris Udvarnoky and Martin Udvarnoky play 12-year-old twin brothers (good Niles Perry, bad Holland Perry) living on a  farm […]

Jul, 31

The Man Who Haunted Himself *** (1970, Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Olga-Georges Picot, Anton Rodgers, Freddie Jones, Thorley Walters, John Carson, John Welsh, Gerald Sim, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 8397

Director Basil Dearden’s 1970 The Man Who Haunted Himself is a slight but effective tale of terror starring Roger Moore as Mr Harold Pelham, the quiet, boring businessman who recovers from a near fatal road […]

Apr, 25

Enduring Love *** (2004, Rhys Ifans, Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Bill Nighy, Susan Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Ben Whishaw) – Classic Movie Review 6892

Director Roger Michell’s weird, haunting and tantalising 2004 British film Enduring Love is written by screenwriter Joe Penhall, based on the 1997 novel by Ian McEwan. The story concerns the perfect picnic of Joe (Daniel Craig) and […]

Apr, 07

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