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La Cage aux Folles II *** (1980, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 10,425

Director Edouard Molinaro’s 1980 comedy sequel La Cage aux Folles II finds that part two unexpectedly answers the awkward questions arising from the 1978 part one, La Cage aux Folles, as Michel Serrault and Ugo […]

Oct, 16

La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding * (1985, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonella Interlenghi) – Classic Movie Review 10,426

Director Georges Lautner’s 1985 comedy second sequel La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding [La cage aux folles III: ‘Elles’ se marient] is third time unlucky for the gay duo, in which drag queen Albin […]

Oct, 16

Partners * (1982, Ryan O’Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan) – Classic Movie Review 10,424

The 1982 crime comedy Partners is a disappointing, wrong-headed comedy-drama from American TV’s sitcomic mastermind James Burrows in his bewildering film début. John Hurt and Ryan O’Neal play an odd couple as LA cops probing […]

Oct, 16

The Passage (1979, Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lee, Patricia Neal, Kay Lenz, Michael Lonsdale) – Classic Movie Review 10,422

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1979 The Passage is a poor, nasty and depressingly violent World War Two action adventure film, wasting the impressive talents of Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lee, Patricia Neal, […]

Oct, 15

Pascali’s Island **** (1988, Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 10,421

Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]

Oct, 15

The Barretts of Wimpole Street ** (1957, Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Jean Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 10,420

The 1957 colour remake The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a stiff museum piece of a film, but John Gielgud makes something of the grand role of poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father. […]

Oct, 15

The Barretts of Wimpole Street ***½ (1934, Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 10,419

MGM’s 1934 Victorian England romantic drama film The Barretts of Wimpole Street showcases a great barnstorming turn by Charles Laughton as poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Director Sidney Franklin’s MGM […]

Oct, 15

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