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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

Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue *** (1953, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 10,988

Director Harold French’s 1953 Technicolor film Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue stars Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, and Michael Gough. It is a box-office flop Walt Disney Productions action adventure set in Scotland […]

Mar, 04

The Sword and the Rose *** (1953, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 10,987

Director Ken Annakin’s brisk, plush and colourful 1953 Tudor children’s adventure The Sword and the Rose stars Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice and Michael Gough. Walt Disney filmed this lively and engaging historical […]

Mar, 04

In Bed with Madonna [Madonna: Truth or Dare] *** (1991, Madonna) – Classic Movie Review 10,986

Madonna: ‘Dad, I’m not getting racy. I’ve been racy.’ Silvio Ciccone (Dad): ‘Well, can’t you tone it down a bit?’ Madonna: ‘For you? No, because that would be compromising my artistic integrity.’ Director Alex Keshishian’s […]

Mar, 04

Compo * (1989, Jeremy Stanford, Bruce Kerr, Christopher Barry, Elizabeth Crockett) – Classic Movie Review 10,985

Producer-director Nigel Buesst’s 1989 Australian low-budget independent film Compo is a well-meaning if rather dreary satirical comedy-drama from Down Under about office bureaucracy and romance. It is based on the play Claim No. Z84 by […]

Mar, 04

Company of Killers **½ (1970, Van Johnson, Ray Milland, John Saxon, Clu Gulager, Brian Kelly, Fritz Weaver, Susan Oliver, Diana Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 10,960

‘Assassins for Hire! Satisfaction Guaranteed! Killing is Big Business In the Hands of This Murder Machine!’ Director Jerry Thorpe’s 1970 film Company of Killers is a reasonably involving, well-made multi-faceted crime thriller, with plenty of […]

Feb, 24

Savages ** (1972, Louis J Stadlen, Anne Francine, Susan Blakely, Margaret Brewster, Thayer David) – Classic Movie Review 10,959

Director James Ivory’s 1972 allegory fantasy comedy drama Savages is based on his own story idea, in which a wandering tribe discovers an empty mansion, but their members change when they live in it and put […]

Feb, 24

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