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The Champagne Murders ** (1967, Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 8646
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1967 thriller The Champagne Murders [Le Scandale] is an unexpected misfire from Chabrol during his best period, with Maurice Ronet starring as Paul Wagner, an oddball playboy who may be a murderer. […]
Tarzan’s Fight for Life ** (1958, Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen) – Classic Movie Review 8065
Director H Bruce Humberstone’s 1958 Tarzan’s Fight for Life is Tarzan movie number three from Gordon Scott as the Ape Man, who this time helps a jungle hospital run by medics Dr Sturdy (Carl Benton […]
White Cargo *** (1942, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, Frank Morgan, Bramwell Fletcher, Richard Ainley, Reginald Owen, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 6299
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 MGM film is a daft, but endearingly simple-minded old-style romantic adventure drama movie of love-hate triangle goings-on in the jungle, with Leon Gordon adapting his own play from 1923. Walter Pidgeon stars […]
That Obscure Object of Desire [Cet Obscur Objet du Désir] **** (1977, Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina) – Classic Movie Review 5084
Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel’s tantalising last work dates from 1977 and tells in flashback the defiantly inscrutable tale of a discreetly charming bourgeois gentleman, Mathieu (Fernando Rey), obsessively pursuing his alluring former maid, Conchita, who refuses […]
Sound of My Voice ***½ (2011, Brit Marlin, Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Kandice Stroh) – Classic Movie Review 4381
Co-writer/ star Brit Marlin is chilly, cool and creepy as Maggie, a strangely icily aloof but charismatic cult leader who claims to have travelled back from the future to help her true believers today in writer/director […]
Mata Hari ** (1985, Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias) – Classic Movie Review 3561
A beautiful, often-naked Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuelle) stars as the real-life Dutch-born dancer and German spy Mata Hari, in director Curtis Harrington’s interesting sex-obsessed soft-porn 1985 film version of the World War One spy story, with […]
Queen Bee *** (1955, Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 3,381
The 1955 romantic melodrama film Queen Bee stars Joan Crawford as Southern socialite Eva Phillips, the matriarch determined to rule her household with a rod of steel. Crawford obviously relishes her wildly over-the-top bad gal […]