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It’s Never Too Late to Mend *** (1937, Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,873

Director David MacDonald’s 1937 black and white Victorian melodramas It’s Never Too Late to Mend stars Tod Slaughter, who extravagantly holds the attention as Squire John Meadows, the wicked Victorian lord of the manor (and […]

Feb, 03

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn *** (1935, Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D J Williams, Eric Portman) – Classic Movie Review 10,865

‘Sensational! Eerie! Sinister! Weird! The most unusual picture of the year!’ Director Milton Rosmer’s cheaply-produced, enjoyable 1935 horror crime thriller Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn stars Tod Slaughter, who is in […]

Feb, 02

Gone to Earth *** (1950, Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 5504

Writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 19th-century saga stars Jennifer Jones as Hazel Woodus, an untamed, superstitious Shropshire gypsy lass who is stirred by a lusty, lonely fox-hunting squire called Jack Reddin (David Farrar) but […]

May, 26

Fury at Smugglers’ Bay *** (1961, Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Bernard Lee, William Franklyn, June Thorburn, Miles Malleson, Michèle Mercier, George Coulouris, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 4175

Writer-director John Gilling’s fun 1961 period adventure stars Peter Cushing as a Cornish squire who tries to keep the smugglers at bay. Gilling’s British sea saga about a gang of shipwreckers’ reign of terror in […]

Aug, 15

The Sword in the Stone *** (1963, Rickie Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson ) – Classic Movie Review 3713

Director Wolfgang Reitherman’s 1963 animation is a ‘whiz-bang wizard of whimsy’, or to put it another, more comprehensible way, it is Walt Disney’s generally appealing and delightful – and sometimes even magical – cartoon version […]

May, 16

Tom Jones ***** (1963, Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith, Diane Cilento, David Warner, Joan Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 1479

In 1963 movie-goers across the globe fell in love with Albert Finney’s entrancing rogue Tom Jones, and director Tony Richardson’s classic is still as fresh, clever, exciting and exhilarating as the day it was made. […]

Jul, 26

The Seventh Seal ***** (1957, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Nils Poppe) – Classic Movie Review 1242

The majestic Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 masterwork The Seventh Seal is a major classic of world cinema. After 17 films as director, it established Bergman’s international reputation as a film-maker of world renown and […]

May, 23

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