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The Scarlet Pimpernel ***** (1935, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2949
‘They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him here everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel.’ Director Harold Young’s high-spirited 1935 British adventure movie […]
Limelight ***** (1952, Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Norman Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 2549
Producer-writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1952 drama with music Limelight is a beautiful film, incredibly poignant, extremely sentimental and nostalgic, but almost unbearably moving both for itself and as an encapsulation of the star’s life. The pairing […]
The Two Mrs Carrolls *** (1947, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2256
Director Peter Godfrey’s 1947 American mystery film The Two Mrs Carrolls is based on the 1935 play by Martin Vale and stars Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith and Nigel Bruce. Bogart honeymooned with Lauren […]
Treasure Island **** (1934, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 2060
‘You ain’t gonna let honesty stand in the way o’ bein’ smart? ‘ – Long John Silver. Director Victor Fleming’s 1934 adventure movie is a splendidly rambunctious, rumbustious retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 classic young […]
The Corn Is Green *** (1945, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 1332
‘Moderation is a vastly over-rated virtue.’ – Miss Lilly Moffat. Director Irving Rapper directs Bette Davis in the 1945 drama The Corn Is Green as Miss Lilly Moffat, a middle-aged English schoolteacher dismayed by the […]
The Spider Woman ***½ (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 1,027
The thoroughly enjoyable 1943 mystery film The Spider Woman sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes investigating the ‘pajama suicides’ case. Gale Sondergaard’s Adrea Spedding proves a worthy adversary. ‘I’m so sorry we have nothing in the […]
The Scarlet Claw **** (1944, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Gerald Hamer, Ian Wolfe, Paul Cavanagh, Kay Harding) – Classic Movie Review 1,026
Director Roy William Neill’s dastardly 1944 whodunit mystery thriller film The Scarlet Claw is the sixth and arguably the finest of Basil Rathbone’s 12 Sherlock Holmes updated films at Universal Pictures studios. Rathbone and Nigel […]