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Scott of the Antarctic ***** (1948, John Mills, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2828

Director Charles Frend’s 1948 British historical adventure classic provides the showcase for one of John Mills’s most admired, tightly reined-in heroic performances as the quixotic British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Mills’s great performance brings […]

Aug, 18

Doctor in the House **** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall, Donald Houston, James Robertson Justice, Muriel Pavlow) – Classic Movie Review 2,691

Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]

Jul, 11

The Slipper and the Rose **** (1976, Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Margaret Lockwood, Annette Crosbie, Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, Edith Evans, Christopher Gable) – Classic Movie Review 2426

Director Bryan Forbes’s enchanting 1976 British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella with songs and dancing is a real charmer. For that, much thanks to Gemma Craven’s captivating Cinders and Richard Chamberlain’s […]

Apr, 26

Oh! What a Lovely War **** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1863

  For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]

Nov, 22

A Night to Remember **** (1958, Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Honor Blackman, Robert Ayres) – Classic Movie Review 1833

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1958 film version of the disaster that afflicted the ‘unsinkable’ RMS Titanic while on its ill-fated maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York in 1912 was a jewel in the crown […]

Nov, 12

Scrooge *** (1970, Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More) – Classic Movie Review 557

‘What the Dickens have they done to Scrooge?… They’ve put him in a big, big musical.’ Well that was risky advertising, huh? Director Ronald Neame’s 1970 movie is quite a jolly musical version of A […]

Dec, 21

Genevieve ***** (1953, John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 187

The beloved 1953 film comedy Genevieve is a glorious highlight of Fifties British cinema and a guaranteed feel-good film and rib-tickler. An all-time-great, it won the 1954 Bafta award for Best British Film. ‘Ambrose only […]

Aug, 25

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