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Le Château de Ma Mère [My Mother’s Castle] ***** (1990, Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel) – Classic Movie Review 9297

Director Yves Robert’s 1990 Le Château de Ma Mère [My Mother’s Castle] is the glorious sequel to La Gloire de Mon Père [My Father’s Glory]. Julien Ciamaca is superb as the teenager Marcel Pagnol, who […]

Jan, 24

Spare the Rod *** (1961, Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 9174

Director Leslie Norman’s socially aware 1961 black and white film drama Spare the Rod is a sympathetic, involving exposé of the tough life in the British state schools of the day, with Donald Pleasence as […]

Dec, 19

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes **** (1945, Edward G Robinson, Margaret O’Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 8782

Emanuel Goldenberg was born in Bucharest, Romania, arrived in the United States at the age of 10, and  moved with his family into New York’s Lower East Side, took up acting and changed his name […]

Jul, 31

The Fifteen Streets *** (1989, Owen Teale, Sean Bean, Clare Holman, Ian Bannen, Jane Horrocks, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Windsor, Anny Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 8659

Director David Wheatley’s 1989 historical romantic drama The Fifteen Streets is a very capably directed, incident-filled romance, effectively adapted by Rob Bettinson from a Catherine Cookson novel, with a well-played cast of rich caricatures and […]

Jun, 29

Pretty Maids All in a Row *** (1971, Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 8495

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry produced and wrote the screenplay for director Roger Vadim’s weird but watchable 1971 black comedy-thriller Pretty Maids All in a Row, offering a strange-brew mélange of laughs, sex and violence. […]

May, 25

Unman, Wittering and Zigo *** (1971, David Hemmings, Carolyn Seymour, Douglas Wilmer) – Classic Movie Review 8323

Director John Mackenzie’s engagingly weird 1971 British thriller Unman, Wittering and Zigo stars David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer, Hamilton Dyce, Carolyn Seymour and Tony Haygarth. Giles Cooper’s Fifties British radio and TV play about a new […]

Apr, 01

Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] ** (1971, Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 8149

Director Sidney Hayers’s 1971 British mystery crime drama Assault [In the Devil’s Garden] stars Frank Finlay as Detective Chief Superintendent Velyan, who hunts for a serial rapist killer of young women in an English village. This […]

Feb, 19

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