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Someone at the Door ** (1950, Michael Medwin, Garry Marsh, Yvonne Owen, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 11,039

‘Let yourself in for a Big Laugh!’ Director Francis Searle’s 1950 British Hammer Films black and white comedy mystery thriller Someone at the Door stars Michael Medwin, Yvonne Owen, Garry Marsh, Hugh Latimer, Danny Green, […]

Mar, 23

Return from Witch Mountain **** (1978, Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann) – Classic Movie Review 8187

Director John Hough’s 1978 Walt Disney Productions family sci-fi adventure sequel to the 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain is even better than his very good original. Christopher Lee and Bette Davis star as a wicked […]

Mar, 02

Devotion *** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Montagu Love, Paul Henreid, Dame May Whitty, Ethel Griffies) – Classic Movie Review 6811

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1946 romantic biographical drama of the lives of the Brontës stars Ida Lupino Emily Brontë, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, Nancy Coleman as Anne Brontë, and Arthur Kennedy as Branwell Brontë. […]

Mar, 16

Shadows **** (1959, Hugh Hurd, Leila Goldoni, Ben Carruthers, Anthony Ray, Dennis Sallas, Tom Allen, Rupert Crosse, David Jones) – Classic Movie Review 5754

A young orphaned African-American family battles to survive in Manhattan. Jazz player Hugh (Hugh Hurd) struggles to make a dollar or two singing in low bars; his sister Leila (Leila Goldoni) joins the phony art […]

Jul, 14

Love Streams *** (1984, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 5753

Writer-director John Cassavetes collaborates on the screenplay with Ted Allan, author of the source play, for this 1984 film tale of a sister, Sarah Lawson (played by Gena Rowlands), with unusual ties to her decadent […]

Jul, 13

Fanny and Alexander [Fanny och Alexander] ***** (1982, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Ewa Fröling, Kristina Adolphson, Allan Edwall) – Classic Movie Review 3934

Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]

Jun, 28

House of Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] **** (1960, Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, Mark Damon, Harry Ellerbe) – Classic Movie Review 2,844

The 1960 horror film House of Usher is the first and perhaps best of Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Vincent Price is on rousing form as the albino Roderick Usher, desperately trying to […]

Aug, 23

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