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Holiday Affair *** (1949, Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 10,952

Director Don Hartman’s 1949 RKO black and white film Holiday Affair, set during the Christmas season, stars Janet Leigh as World War Two war widow Connie Ennis, who is courted by affable department store sales […]

Feb, 22

Hotel Imperial ** (1939, Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J Carrol Naish, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 10,942

‘TRAPPED BY LOVE IN THE MAD MAELSTROM OF WAR! ‘ Director Robert Florey’s 1939 drama Hotel Imperial stars Italian actress Isa Miranda as Anna Warschawska, a dancer from the Balkans who masquerades as a chambermaid […]

Feb, 20

Against the Ropes ** (2004, Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S Dutton) – Classic Movie Review 10,941

Director Charles S Dutton’s 2004 drama Against the Ropes stars Meg Ryan, who battles to get her career off the ropes as a real-life go-getting promoter, Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who storms […]

Feb, 20

Against the Wind *** (1948, Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, John Slater, Gordon Jackson, Paul Dupuis) – Classic Movie Review 10,940

Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]

Feb, 19

L’Age d’Or ***** (1930, Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque) – Classic Movie Review 10,939

Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]

Feb, 19

Grievous Bodily Harm *** (1988, Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Shane Briant) – Classic Movie Review 10,926

Director Mark Joffe’s 1988 Grievous Bodily Harm is an intriguing, tough-edged Aussie mystery crime thriller with a satisfactorily labyrinthine plot about a teacher (John Waters) who uncovers a connection between his missing wife (Joy Bell) […]

Feb, 16

The Face of Marble ** (1946, John Carradine, Claudia Drake, Robert Shayne) – Classic Movie Review 10,904

‘The last gasp in chillers!’ Director William Beaudine’s mostly forgotten 1946 post-war black and white horror thriller The Face of Marble stars John Carradine, as the apparently rational but actually mad scientist Dr Charles Randolph, and […]

Feb, 11

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