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A Murder of Quality ** (1991, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw, David Threlfall, Ronald Pickup) – Classic Movie Review 9661

John le Carré’s 1962 novel (his second) finds holidaying spymaster George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) turning amateur sleuth in the 1950s to investigate the murder of a schoolmaster’s wife at a Dorset public school, Carne School. […]

Apr, 22

The Land Girls ** (1998, Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Macintosh) – Classic Movie Review 7037

In World War Two, three London ladies called Ag, Stella and Prue (Rachel Weisz, Catherine McCormack and Anna Friel) are billeted on a farm in the Dorest countryside, where they have to work for The […]

May, 11

Moonfleet *** (1955, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindors, Jon Whiteley) – Classic Movie Review 3905

Director Fritz Lang’s lively but cardboard-looking 1955 vintage costume adventure, based freely on J Meade Falkner’s classic story, is way off Lang’s usual territory. It is somewhat shakily made as what looks like a chore […]

Jun, 23

Far from the Madding Crowd *** (2015, Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge) – Movie Review

Bathsheba Everdene is in love with three blokes – well, sort of, and can’t make up her mid about which one, if any she fancies settling down with, Far from the Madding Crowd in Dorset. It’s the […]

Apr, 29

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