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The House That Screamed [La Residencia] *** (1969, Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 12,271

Writer-director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s 1969 cult Spanish horror film The House That Screamed [La Residencia] stars Lilli Palmer as Señora Fourneau, the strict disciplinarian headmistress of a 19th-century French girls’ boarding school, where the students […]

Aug, 05

The Power of One *** (1992, Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 12,009

Director John G Avildsen’s 1992 drama film The Power of One is based on the novel by Bryce Courtenay, and stars Stephen Dorff, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Morgan Freeman and John Gielgud. The Power of One is […]

Mar, 15

A Feast at Midnight ** (1994, Freddie Findlay, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 10,622

Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) […]

Dec, 03

The Trouble with Angels ** (1966, Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, June Harding, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 9172

Director Ida Lupino’s 1966 comedy The Trouble with Angels stars Hayley Mills and June Harding as Mary Clancy and Rachel Devery, young students and naughty schoolgirls let loose and running wild in a Pennsylvanian Catholic convent boarding […]

Dec, 19

The Happiest Millionaire *** (1967, Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, John Davidson, Gladys Cooper, Lesley Ann Warren, Geraldine Page, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 8532

Director Norman Tokar’s 1967 The Happiest Millionaire is the last live-action film supervised personally as producer by Walt Disney (uncredited), though Bill Anderson is credited producer. It is a large-scale musical, with a modern-day Romeo […]

Jun, 01

Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] **** (1966, Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd Tischer, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 7497

Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff’s powerful and relevant 1966 Young Törless [Der Junge Törless] is notable as this important German film-maker’s first feature. It is his forceful, assured, well-acted version of the classic Robert Musil parable novel […]

Aug, 25

Toy Soldiers *** (1991, Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, R Lee Ermey, Mason Adams, Denholm Elliott, Louis Gossett Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6735

Director Daniel Petrie Jr’s engaging 1991 movie stars the 20-year-old cheeky-faced cherub Sean Astin as Billy Tepper, whose title gang of naughty but nice schoolboys do good when Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff)’s evil Colombian terrorists take […]

Feb, 25

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