Recent Posts
- The Class [Entre Les Murs] **** (2008, Stars François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio) – Classic Movie Review 12,860
- George Washington Slept Here *** (1942, Jack Benny, Ann Sheridan, Percy Kilbride, Charles Coburn, Hattie McDaniel, William Tracy, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 12,859
- The Great Victor Herbert *** (1939, Walter Connolly, Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Susanna Foster, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 12,858
- Undertow [Contracorriente] **** (2009, Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo) – Classic Movie Review 12,857
- Problemista *** (2024, Tilda Swinton, Julio Torres, Ronald Peet, Kelly McCormack, Paul Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 12,856
- Alex Strangelove *** (2018, Daniel Doheny, Antonio Marziale, Madeline Weinstein) – Classic Movie Review 12,855
- Viharsarok [Land of Storms] *** (2014, András Sütö, Ádám Varga, Sebastian Urzendowsky) – Classic Movie Review 12,854
- The Normal Heart **** (2014, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 12,853
- Concrete Night [Betoniyö] *** (2013, Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen, Juhan Ulfsak) – Classic Movie Review 12,852
- The Snorkel *** (1958, Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John, Mandy Miller, William Franklyn, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 12,851
Posts Tagged "reform school"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "reform school".
Hell’s House [Juvenile Court] ** (1932, Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Junior Durkin) – Classic Movie Review 11,472
Director Howard Higgin’s 1932 American Pre-Code drama Hell’s House [Juvenile Court] stars young Bette Davis (aged 24) and Pat O’Brien (aged 33), who are worth a look in this decent little low-budget programmer about a […]
Deep Waters ** (1948, Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 9984
Director Henry King’s minor but appealing 1948 drama Deep Waters is based on the novel Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore, and stars Dean Stockwell, Jean Peters, Dana Andrews and Cesar Romero. It was Oscar nominated for […]
Freedom Is Paradise [S.E.R. – Svoboda eto rai] **** (1989, Volodya Kozyrev, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Aleksandr Bureyev, Svetlana Gaytan) – Classic Movie Review 9162
Volodya Kozyrev stars in Freedom Is Paradise as Sasha, a 13-year-old Russian boy who longs for freedom from his state-run special school for difficult children, where is is taken after his mother died. One day […]
Good Time Girl *** (1948, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6978
Director David MacDonald’s 1948 British noir thriller Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as a slum slut called Gwen Rawlings, who escapes from her young offenders’ prison, joins some crooks, kills a copper in a […]
Bed of Roses *** (1933, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Pert Kelton) – Classic Movie Review 6725
The scandalous 1933 pre-Production Code Depression-era comedy drama film Bed of Roses is a sharp and amusing story of ‘the girl who took a shortcut down the primrose path’. Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea star. […]
Across the Tracks *** (1990, Ricky Schroder, Brad Pitt, Carrie Snodgress, David Anthony Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 601
The young Brad Pitt and Rick Schroder star in writer-director Sandy Tung’s 1990 drama about a kid trying to adjust to his old life when he returns from reform school. It’s an agreeable youth-oriented coming-of-age […]
Angels with Dirty Faces ***** (1938, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall) – Classic Movie Review 295
Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]