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The Count of Monte Cristo **** (1934, Robert Donat, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Elissa Landi, Raymond Walburn, William Farnum, O P Heggie) – Classic Movie Review 3003

The 1934 adventure movie The Count of Monte Cristo is a thrilling version of the Alexandre Dumas 1844 novel, with Robert Donat in the star role. Screen-writer Philip Dunne said he never read it and […]

Oct, 21

Dracula AD 1972 ** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Marsha Hunt, Christopher Neame, Caroline Munro, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 2,856

Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]

Aug, 28

Taste the Blood of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Ralph Bates, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford) – Classic Movie Review 1735

Director Peter Sasdy’s 1970 horror thriller Taste the Blood of Dracula is the fourth in the famous British Hammer Films Dracula series with Christopher Lee, a watchable follow-up to 1968’s Dracula Has Risen from the […]

Oct, 02

Dracula *** (1973, Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 1728

‘There he lay looking as if youth had been half renewed… the mouth was redder than ever for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and […]

Oct, 02

The Boat That Rocked [Pirate Radio] **** (2009, Tom Sturridge, Charlie Rowe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd, Kenneth Branagh, Rhys Ifans, Jack Davenport, Emma Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 798

A lot was expected of this extremely likeable and funny 2009 comedy from writer-director Richard Curtis, the laugh mastermind behind the scripts of Blackadder, Mr Bean and The Vicar of Dibley for TV and Four […]

Feb, 04

Nosferatu the Vampyre [Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht] **** (1979, Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz) – Classic Movie Review 238

‘The Master is coming.’ – Renfield. ‘Cruel is when you can’t die even if you want to.’ – Dracula. Director Werner Herzog triumphantly remakes the famous 1921 horror silent with all due respect to the […]

Sep, 14

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