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Appointment with Death *** (1988, Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, Piper Laurie, David Soul, John Gielgud, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove) – Classic Movie Review 3662

Director Michael Winner goes to Israel to film Agatha Christie’s escapist vintage mystery thriller novel Appointment with Death in 1988 and the delightful Peter Ustinov amusingly impersonates the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot for the sixth […]

May, 05

Misery **** (1990, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3,146

Rob Reiner films Stephen King’s gruesome shocker novel Misery with a relentless tension in this engrossing and startling 1990 horror movie starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen and Lauren Bacall. ‘Oh forgive […]

Dec, 12

How to Marry a Millionaire **** (1953, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 2612

Marilyn Monroe (as Pola Debevoise), Betty Grable (as Loco Dempsey) and Lauren Bacall (as Schatze Page) star as the shallow but sweet gold-diggers of 1953 in director Jean Negulesco’s entertaining smash comedy. The trio of […]

Jun, 17

The Shootist ***** (1976, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 2578

Director Don Siegel’s superb, haunting 1976 character-driven Western stars John Wayne in his final role as aging gunfighter John Book, who is struck down not by a baddy’s bullet but by terminal cancer, as Wayne was […]

Jun, 10

Written on the Wind **** (1956, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1545

Director Douglas Sirk’s penetrating, inspired 1956 movie expose of the idle, pointless lives of the self-destructive rich centres on an ultra-wealthy Texas oil family. Dorothy Malone won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing the sex-crazed […]

Aug, 13

Dogville **** (2003, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 1496

Director Lars von Trier’s challenging, not to say intimidating, 2003 epic is a minimalist parable playing out on a stage-like set. It stars Nicole Kidman, who gives a tour de force in one of her […]

Jul, 30

To Have and Have Not ***** (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall) – Classic Movie Review 1346

Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1944 wartime adventure enjoys the enormous benefit of introducing the star pair of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to the screen, in the first of the real-life couple’s series of four movies together. It […]

Jun, 21

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