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Back to Bataan *** (1945, John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Lawrence Tierney, Paul Fix) – Classic Movie Review 6995
RKO Radio Pictures’s 1945 wartime movie is a strange mix with left-wing director Edward Dmytryk proving his patriotism and right-wing gung-ho star John Wayne, as World War Two US marine Colonel Madden, winning the war […]
The High Bright Sun [McGuire, Go Home!] ** (1965, Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 6807
Dirk Bogarde is on commanding form in director Ralph Thomas’s otherwise ordinary 1965 adventure movie as Major McGuire, an intelligence officer in the British Army occupying Cyprus in the Fifties (it is 1957) during Cyprus’s war […]
Le Petit Soldat *** (1963, Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet) – Classic Movie Review 6070
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard’s second film in terms of shooting follows his spectacular debut with Breathless (1960). It stars Michel Subor as Bruno Forestier, a young French terrorist who is turned over to the Geneva police […]
Viceroy’s House ** (2017, Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, Om Puri, Lily Travers, Simon Callow, Simon Williams) – Movie Review
Hugh Bonneville stars as Lord Louis Mountbatten, who is appointed final Viceroy of India, with the job of overseeing the transition of British India to independence in 1947. Director Gurinder Chadha means well but has bitten off […]
The Battle of Algiers [La Battaglia di Algeri] ***** (1965, Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Tommaso Neri, Semia Kerbash, Michelle Kerbash) – Classic Movie Review 5093
Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1965 film is a masterly reconstruction in CinemaScope of violent events in Algiers from 1954 to 1957, with an intense personal tale about a petty criminal (Brahim Haggiag [Hadjadj]) recruited into the […]
The Wind That Shakes the Barley **** (2006, Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham) – Classic Movie Review 3744
The 69-year-old Ken Loach won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival’s top honour of the Palme d’Or for his impassioned, controversial Irish historical war drama, a tale of two fictional County Cork brothers fighting for Irish independence from the United […]
Passport to Pimlico ***** (1949, Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater, Jane Hylton, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 47
Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford, and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne – classic British comedy bliss! Ealing Studios turned the British nation’s post-World War Two austerity troubles with government red tape and ration books into the […]