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Le diable au corps [Devil in the Flesh] **** (1947, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Denise Grey, Jean Lara) – Classic Movie Review 11,059

Director Claude Autant-Lara’s 1947 black and white film Le Diable au Corps [Devil in the Flesh] is a beautifully lush, erotic French World War One romantic drama, based on Raymond Raguet’s novel of adulterous passion, […]

Mar, 30

The Halliday Brand *** (1957, Joseph Cotten, Viveca Lindfors, Betsy Blair, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 9604

‘Their violence seared the West like a branding iron!’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1956 The Halliday Brand is a rousing flashback Western making the most of a somewhat clichéd script about a rancher father, Big […]

Apr, 06

Belles on Their Toes *** (1952, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 8810

Director Henry Levin’s 1952 Belles on Their Toes is the too-sentimental but still amusing and appealing sequel to the sharper 1950 family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. [Spoiler alert] There is no Clifton Webb this […]

Aug, 09

Tea for Two *** (1950, Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, Billy DeWolfe, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7684

‘Everybody’s goin’ Gay with – Doris Day and Gordon MacRae.’ No, really? Director David Butler’s diverting 1950 Technicolor musical Tea for Two, a distant cousin to the Twenties show No, No, Nanette from which it […]

Oct, 20

Homecoming ** (1948, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6,701

The watchable 1948 wartime romantic film Homecoming finds ideally paired MGM superstars Clark Gable and Lana Turner in unusual roles for them in their third movie together. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s trite 1948 wartime romance film […]

Feb, 17

Little Big Man ***** (1970, Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 6272

Director Arthur Penn’s classic 1970 epic Western stars Dustin Hoffman, who gives a bravura performance as Jack Crabb, 121-year-old survivor of Little Big Horn, who recounts his tall story as an adopted Cheyenne and buddy […]

Nov, 20

Hold Back the Dawn **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 4180

Happily, there is no holding back director Mitchell Leisen’s marvellous 1941 vintage romantic comedy, based securely on a top-flight Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay (based on the story Memo to a Movie Producer by Ketti Frings) that is […]

Aug, 16

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