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Smoking *** (1993, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi) – Classic Movie Review 11,366

Alain Resnais meets Alan Ayckbourn for the 1993 French comedy film Smoking. For the 1993 French comedy film Smoking / No Smoking, director Alain Resnais adapts Alan Ayckbourn’s play Intimate Exchanges (a series of eight […]

Jul, 04

A Day Out **** (1972, David Waller, James Cossins, John Normington) – Classic Movie Review 10,989

Director Stephen Frears’s 1972 nostalgic drama A Day Out is Alan Bennett’s debut play for television – a lovely, gentle, idyllic film, shot in black and white, about a Yorkshire cycling club’s Sunday outing from […]

Mar, 05

When We Are Married **** (1943, Sydney Howard, Raymond Huntley, Olga Lindo) – Classic Movie Review 10,435

Director Lance Comfort’s 1943 comedy When We Are Married is a very welcome film version of the appealing 1938 J B Priestley English Northcountry play about three sanctimoniously respectable Victorian silver wedding couples – The […]

Oct, 19

Rita, Sue and Bob Too * (1987, Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan) – Classic Movie Review 9997

Director Alan Clarke’s 1987 drama Rita, Sue and Bob Too is an unattractive sex comedy about two Bradford schoolgirls, Rita and Sue (Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes), who fall for and have a sexual fling with […]

Jul, 04

All Creatures Great and Small *** (1975, Simon Ward, Anthony Hopkins, Lisa Harrow, Freddie Jones) – Classic Movie Review 8698

Fans of the BBC TV series will be surprised to find All Creatures Great and Small has a different cast for the 1975 film version, with Simon Ward as nice young assistant vet James Herriot, […]

Jul, 12

South Riding **** (1938, Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd, Glynis Johns, John Clements, Marie Lohr) – Classic Movie Review 8636

Fine acting and good screen-writing are showcased in the highly competent, convincing and appealing 1937 black and white drama film South Riding from producer Alexander Korda and director Victor Saville, who takes it very briskly […]

Jun, 24

Escape from the Dark [The Littlest Horse Thieves] **** (1976, Alastair Sim, Peter Barkworth, Maurice Colbourne) – Classic Movie Review 8195

‘Three Daring Adventurers! Clever enough to outsmart a town… brave enough to save it!’ Director Charles Jarrott’s impeccable 1976 family drama Escape from the Dark [The Littlest Horse Thieves] is based on Rosemary Anne Sisson’s […]

Mar, 04

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