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It Happened in Athens ** (1962, Jayne Mansfield, Trax Colton, Nico Minardos) – Classic Movie Review 11,079

‘When Jayne Mansfield Becomes the Olympic Prize… It’s An Outdoor Variation on an Inside Sport!’ Director Andrew Marton’s 1962 CinemaScope and DeLuxe color film It Happened in Athens stars Jayne Mansfield as Greece’s most glamorous […]

Apr, 07

In the Cool of the Day ** (1963, Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Hill) – Classic Movie Review 9738

Peter Finch and Jane Fonda star as a married publisher and a young married woman who have an illicit affair, in MGM’s coolly received 1963 romantic drama In the Cool of the Day. ‘WHY DID […]

May, 09

The Magus * (1968, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina) – Classic Movie Review 9546

Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina are in trouble in director Guy Green’s murky, muddled and meandering 1968 film of the then in-vogue John Fowles novel The Magus. As screenwriter, Fowles just […]

Mar, 22

40 Carats *** (1973, Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 9375

Director Milton Katselas’s 1973 romantic comedy drama 40 Carats [Forty Carats] stars Liv Ullmann as a glamorous 40-year-old divorced wife, Norwegian-American divorcée Ann Stanley, who has a fling with an American boy (Edward Albert) half […]

Feb, 13

Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] ***** (1990, Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty) – Classic Movie Review 8722

Director Etienne Chatiliez’s 1990 French gem Tatie Danielle [Auntie Danielle] stars Tsilla Chelton, who is magnificently awful as the rich old, recently widowed grandma, whose only pleasure in life is tormenting her relatives and anyone […]

Jul, 17

The Giants of Thessaly [I giganti della Tessaglia] *** (1960, Roland Carey, Ziva Rodann, Massimo Girotti, Alberto Farnese) – Classic Movie Review 7939

‘The Screen Explodes With Wondrous Spectacle Bigger Than Anything You Have Ever Seen!! ‘ Director Riccardo Freda’s entertaining 1960 Italian-French adventure-fantasy film The Giants of Thessaly [I giganti della Tessaglia (Gli Argonauti)] is loosely based on the Greek […]

Dec, 23

The Angry Hills ** (1959, Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Elisabeth Müller) – Classic Movie Review 7594

The 1959 The Angry Hills stars the always-watchable Robert ‘Old Snake Eyes’ Mitchum in a Leon Uris World War Two-set wartime thriller under ace film-maker Robert Aldrich’s cannily stalwart direction. But, with these people, you […]

Sep, 18

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