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Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] **** (1955, Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Yves Robert, Brigitte Bardot) – Classic Movie Review 10,207

Director René Clair’s enchanting, exquisitely handled pre-World War One romantic comedy-drama Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] (1955), haunted with tragic emotions, is set in a French provincial garrison town. There Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne […]

Aug, 21

The Woman in Black * (2012, Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,205

The tame ghost story film The Woman in Black (2012) is sparked up by Daniel Radcliffe’s strong central performance. The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally dull and tame ghost story that has little […]

Aug, 21

Cobb **** (1994, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich) – Classic Movie Review 10,204

Tommy Lee Jones scores as baseball’s greatest hitter, the game’s most feared and hated player, in writer-director Ron Shelton’s compelling 1995 sports biopic Cobb, based on the article and book by Al Stump. All-time baseball […]

Aug, 20

Cobra *** (1925, Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead) – Classic Movie Review 10,203

The magnificent Rudolph Valentino stars in director Joseph Henabery’s 1925 silent classic drama Cobra as a down-at-heel Italian marquis, Count Rodrigo Torriani, who decides to ‘collect’ women (the cobras of the title), who fascinate him, […]

Aug, 20

Cobra Verde *** (1987, Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy) – Classic Movie Review 10,202

Director Werner Herzog reunites with his Aguirre, Wrath of God star Klaus Kinski for Cobra Verde in 1988 as an infamous Brazilian bandit, Francisco Manoel da Silva, sent to exploit slaves in West Africa during […]

Aug, 20

Cocoon: The Return ** (1988, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 10,201

Director Daniel Petrie’s 1988 senior citizen sci-fi sequel Cocoon: The Return sees the welcome return of the spaced-out Florida wrinklies, with more or less everybody (the entire main cast) returning from the original, but not […]

Aug, 20

Harry in Your Pocket *** (1973, James Coburn, Michael Sarrazin, Trish Van Devere, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 10,200

Director Bruce Geller’s 1973 pickpocket comedy crime drama Harry in Your Pocket is a cute, nifty and pleasing caper comedy, very much of its period, with Michael Sarrazin, James Coburn and Walter Pidgeon as three generations […]

Aug, 19

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