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Miss Marple: Nemesis *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Anna Cropper, Margaret Tyzack, Valerie Lush, Helen Cherry, John Horsley, Peter Tilbury, Frank Gatliff) – Classic Movie Review 9,632

The inventive 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis again stars Joan Hickson, who investigates her eighth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Unusually for this faithful series, it […]

Apr, 13

The Secret Garden *** (1949, Margaret O’Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 9259

Director Fred M Wilcox’s 1949 The Secret Garden stars Margaret O’Brien as little orphan Mary Lennox, who lives with grouchy uncle Archibald Craven (Herbert Marshall) and makes everything in the garden come up roses. She […]

Jan, 14

The Assam Garden **** (1985, Deborah Kerr, Madhur Jaffrey, Alex McCowen, Zia Mohyeddin, Iain Cuthbertson Anton Lesser, Ronald Russell) – Classic Movie Review 6164

Director Mary McMurray’s tender and poignant 1985 drama brings back Deborah Kerr to the cinema after a 16-year layoff (since The Arrangement in 1969) as Englishwoman Helen, an ex-Raj widow who returns to England and the […]

Oct, 31

The Secret Garden ** (1993, Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Haydon Prowse, John Lynch, Andrew Knott, Irène Jacob) – Classic Movie Review 5188

Director Agnieszka Holland’s 1993 film version of the 1911 Frances Hodgson Burnett children’s story is picturesque and meticulous, but dramatically indolent. Burnett’s story was previously filmed in 1919, 1949 and for TV in 1987. Kate […]

Mar, 22

Pride and Prejudice ***½ (1940, Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Edmund Gwenn, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Ann Rutherford, Maureen O’Sullivan, Heather Angel, Marsha Hunt, Melville Cooper, E E Clive, Claud Alister) – Classic Movie Review 3587

Jane Austen’s best-loved novel is effectively dramatised via a stage version and brought to the screen smoothly by director Robert Z Leonard in 1940, as the brash and brassy MGM studio meets refined and reluctant […]

Apr, 18

The Serpent’s Kiss *** (1997, Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Greta Scacchi, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 3038

Director Philippe Rousselot’s subtle and intriguing 1997 film stars Ewan McGregor as young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome, who arrives at the remote British stately home of Thomas Smithers (Pete Postlethwaite) and his wife Juliana […]

Nov, 07

Ladies in Lavender **** (2002, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Natascha McElhone, Miriam Margolyes, David Warner, Toby Jones, Geoffrey Bayldon, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2978

Judi Dench and Maggie Smith light up the screen as Thirties Cornish sisters, Ursula and Janet, who take in a foreign lad (Spanish-German star Daniel Brühl) they find washed up on the nearby beach. As […]

Oct, 11

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