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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman *** (1982, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard) – Classic Movie Review 10,444

Director Christopher Petit’s 1982 crime mystery thriller An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is an intriguing and largely successful if too tricksy film version of P D James’s twisting 1972 novel featuring her female detective […]

Oct, 21

Three Into Two Won’t Go *** (1969, Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson, Peggy Ashcroft) – Classic Movie Review 10,443

Director Peter Hall’s 1969 British drama Three into Two Won’t Go stars Rod Steiger as Steve Howard, a businessman whose unsteady marriage to his wife Frances (Claire Bloom) is tipped over into chaos by a […]

Oct, 21

Up on the Roof *** (1997, Billy Carter, Clare Cathcart, Adrian Lester) – Classic Movie Review 10,442

Director Simon Moore’s appealing 1997 British comedy drama with songs Up on the Roof, based on the award-winning stage play by Simon Moore and Jane Prowse, who also write the screenplay, is a tuneful, funny, […]

Oct, 21

Up in the Cellar ** (1970, Wes Stern, Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Judy Pace) – Classic Movie Review 10,441

Wes Stern stars as Colin Slade, a college boy with a winning way with women, in writer-director Theodore J Flicker’s cheap-looking, sometimes sharp satire on sex and social mores, the 1970 comedy Up in the […]

Oct, 20

The American Success Company *** (1980, Jeff Bridges, Belinda Bauer, Ned Beatty, Steven Keats, Bianca Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 10,439

Director William Richert’s 1980 The American Success Company [Success] [American Success] is a peculiar but sometimes funny black comedy about the inexperienced but ambitious son of a credit-card tycoon who decides to change his luck […]

Oct, 20

Halls of Anger *** (1970, Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 10,438

Director Paul Bogart’s 1970 drama Halls of Anger stars Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges, James A Watson Jr, Rob Reiner, Edward Asner, John McLiam and Otis Day [Dewayne Jesse], and Patricia Stich. Sixty white […]

Oct, 20

Can’t Buy Me Love ** (1987, Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains) – Classic Movie Review 10,437

Director Steve Rash’s 1987 Can’t Buy Me Love [Boy Rents Girl] is a pleasantly routine American teen comedy with a familiar plot about nerdy outcast senior year boy (Patrick Dempsey) hiring popular, beautiful high-school cheerleader girl […]

Oct, 19

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