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Three Faces East *** (1930, Constance Bennett, Erich Von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 12,583

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1930 Warner Bros black and white film Three Faces East is based on the popular 1918 Broadway play Three Faces East by Anthony Paul Kelly, and stars Constance Bennett and Erich Von […]

Jul, 21

West of Broadway ** (1931, John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran, Madge Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Frank Conroy) – Classic Movie Review 12,216

Director Harry Beaumont’s 1931 comedy romantic drama film West of Broadway stars John Gilbert as Chicago alcoholic millionaire Jerry Stevens, who has at least one drink too many and wakes up to a bride called […]

Jul, 04

Benediction **** (2021, Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels) – Movie Review

Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi lead Terence Davies’s 2021 drama film Benediction, based on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, also starring late actor Julian Sands. The 2021 biographical drama film Benediction is written […]

Mar, 25

Happy Christmas [Joyeux Noël] *** (2005, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Diane Kruger, Gary Lewis, Alex Ferns, Daniel Brühl) – Classic Movie Review 11,764

‘Without an enemy there can be no war.’ Happy Christmas [Joyeux Noël] (2005) is the somewhat fictionalised, and very sentimental version of the story of the First World War Christmas ceasefire in the trenches, where […]

Dec, 03

Brown on Resolution [Forever England] **** (1935, John Mills, Betty Balfour, Barry Mackay, Jimmy Hanley) – Classic Movie Review 11,374

Director Walter Forde’s 1936 British war film Brown on Resolution [Forever England] stars John Mills, who embodies the character of brave sailor he did so well – here Albert Brown, who joins the Royal Navy […]

Jul, 08

Hotel Imperial *** (1927, Pola Negri, James Hall, George Siegmann) – Classic Movie Review 10,958

‘Pola Negri loving, hating, fighting, running the gamut of every conceivable human emotion. Never has she given such full play to her genius.’ Director Mauritz Stiller’s 1927 American silent film Hotel Imperial is an impressive […]

Feb, 24

Today We Live ** (1933, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 9,757

Director Howard Hawks and co-director Richard Rosson’s 1933 wartime romantic drama Today We Live is a surprisingly low-powered, and now very much dated, movie from MGM studios, considering the high-voltage talent involved. As Ann Boyce-Smith, […]

May, 12

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