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Night Hair Child (1972, Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Kruger, Harry Andrews, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 11,797

Director James Kelley’s 1972 horror thriller film Night Hair Child [What the Peeper Saw] [Diabólica Malicia] stars Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Kruger, Harry Andrews, and Lilli Palmer. Stepmother Elise (Ekland)’s sweet-seeming 12-year-old schoolboy stepson Marcus […]

Dec, 17

Angel Face ****½ (1953, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum, Herbert Marshall, Barbara O’Neil, Leon Ames, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 6,397

Jean Simmons stars on her most outrageously malicious form as Diane Tremayne, the dangerously psychopathic young woman with the sensuous angel face, in the ferocious 1953 film noir melodrama 1953 Angel Face. Angel Face is […]

Dec, 12

Taste of Fear [Scream of Fear] **** (1961, Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs) – Classic Movie Review 2894

Director Seth Holt’s 1961 British horror thriller stars Susan Strasberg as Penny Appleby, a wheelchair-confined young socialite who insists that she keeps seeing her father’s dead body when she returns to his estate after ten years. […]

Sep, 08

Cinderella *** (2015, Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Ben Chaplin, Derek Jacobi, Stellan Skarsgård, Helena Bonham Carter) – Movie Review

Disney remakes its classic 1950 animated feature as director Kenneth Branagh’s very likeable, traditional and romantic if rather dull and old-fashioned live-action retelling of the classic fairy tale about Cinderella, the orphaned servant step-daughter of the Wicked Stepmother, […]

Mar, 05

Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] ***** (1944, Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley) – Classic Movie Review 739

‘A Sensational Triumph for the NEW Dick Powell.’ Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1944 American film noir Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] stars Dick Powell, Claire Trevor and Anne Shirley in her final film before she […]

Jan, 25

Sleepy Hollow **** (1999, Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 223

Director Tim Burton brings us a new nightmare in 1999 – well, an old one, dressed to kill – in this chilling, live-action remake of the 1949 Walt Disney cartoon The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. […]

Sep, 05

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