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Let’s Get Laid * (1978, Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel, Linda Hayden) – Classic Movie Review 10,392
‘Gordon Laid is getting stuck in some very tight places.’ Director James Kenelm Clarke’s tame and tawdry 1978 British sex comedy film Let’s Get Laid stars Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel and Linda Hayden, who do their best with the material offered, an odd mix of sex scenes and comedy plot, neither very strong,…
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Harrad Summer ** (1974, Robert Reiser, Laurie Walters, Richard Doran, Victoria Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 10,311
Director Steven Hilliard Stern’s 1974 Harrad Summer is the surprisingly involving sequel to The Harrad Experiment (1973), in which the co-ed students at fictional Harrad College, an institution with controversial progressive ideals, return home to practise what has been preached to them. It stars Robert Reiser, Laurie Walters, Richard Doran and Victoria Thompson as Harrad College…
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Man at the Top *** (1973, Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 9550
Director Mike Vardy’s 1973 Man at the Top is the third film about that nasty piece of work Joe Lampton, this time a Hammer Films studios spin-off from the popular Thames TV series (1970-72) with Kenneth Haigh. The tale is about Lampton swallowed up in boardroom clashes and a crime in marketing a drug that…
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The Southern Star *** (1969, George Segal, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Ian Hendry) – Classic Movie Review 9316
Director Sidney Hayers’s 1969 UK France co-production caper The Southern Star [L’Etoile du Sud] is a carefree, endearing Sixties adventure movie of fun and games in Africa, with a slapdash script based remotely on a Jules Verne novel, L’Etoile du Sud. The story is set in French West Africa in 1912 and revolves around a…
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A Million Little Pieces ** (2018, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young, Giovanni Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, Dash Mihok, Charles Parnell) – Movie Review
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is excellent in director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s A Million Little Pieces (2018) as 23-year-old aspiring writer James Frey, who is massively self-destructing through addiction at drugs and alcohol. His brother Bob Frey Jr (Charlie Hunnam) checks him into a religious-founded strict facility centre for addicts for six weeks to clean out and face his…
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Song for a Raggy Boy *** (2003, Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, John Travers, Chris Newman, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7587
The harsh 2003 drama Song for a Raggy Boy stars Aidan Quinn as William Franklin, who lands a teaching job at a bleak and severe Catholic boys’ Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland. Soulful Quinn is first rate in director Aisling Walsh’s grim but expertly handled 2003 true tale of triumph over adversity. Iain…
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Come to the Stable *** (1949, Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dooley Wilson, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 7249
Director Henry Koster’s 1949 true story comedy drama Come to the Stable stars Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as French nuns Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, who arrive and set out win the hearts and help of the colourful locals in order to build a children’s hospital in the small town of Bethlehem in New England. Oscar Millard…