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A Place for Lovers [Amanti] (1968, Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni) – Classic Movie Review 11,603

Director Vittorio De Sica’s superbad 1968 Italian-French romantic film A Place for Lovers [Amanti] is Love Story with an Italian backdrop. It stars stars beautiful people Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni, and is often judged one of […]

Sep, 27

The Lion of St Mark [Il Leone di San Marco] ** (1963, Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 7965

Director Luigi Capuano’s 1963 The Lion of St Mark [Il Leone di San Marco] is colourful Italian swashbuckling pirate adventure nonsense with Gordon Scott as the Venetian Doge’s son Manrico Venier, the heir to great […]

Dec, 31

A Little Romance *** (1979, Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard ) – Classic Movie Review 6985

Director George Roy Hill’s sweet and entertaining 1979 romantic comedy movie stars Laurence Olivier as Julius, an old storytelling pickpocket who befriends a couple of teenage brats and gets them to run away with him […]

May, 01

The Glass Mountain **** (1949, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Valentina Cortese, Tito Gobbi, Sebastian Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 6275

Director Henry Cass’s poignant popular 1949 love story romantic drama stars Michael Denison as the married English composer Richard Wilder, who is moved to write an opera by two of Italy’s greatest delights – the […]

Nov, 20

The Venetian Affair *** (1966, Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Boris Karloff, Karl Boehm, Luciana Paluzzi) – Classic Movie Review 6011

The ever-suave Robert Vaughn and smooth Sixties spy intrigue thrillers of course went together perfectly. He was a big star in 1966 – this action espionage thriller was simply advertised as ‘Vaughn! Venice! Vooom!’ It was […]

Sep, 10

Inferno **½ (2016, Tom Hanks, Ben Foster, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen) – Movie Review

After all his previous problems in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons (2009), you’d think Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) would be enjoying some well deserved peace and quiet, especially after all those dead priests […]

Oct, 14

Eva **** (1962, Stanley Baker, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, James Villiers, Lisa Gastoni) – Classic Movie Review 3999

Director Joseph Losey’s beautiful looking, smart and clever 1962 erotic thriller is based on the 1945 novel Eve by James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish, his first book filmed in 1948 […]

Jul, 11

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