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Greenfingers **** (2000, Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer, Adam Fogerty, Lucy Punch) – Classic Movie Review 8874

Writer-director Joel Hershman’s Greenfingers stars Clive Owen as prisoner Colin Briggs, who is moved to an open jail, where his friendship with a dying Irish convict, Fergus Wilks (David Kelly), leads to a passion for […]

Aug, 31

And God Created Woman * (1988, Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella) – Classic Movie Review 8844

In 1988 Roger Vadim took the title of his Fifties Brigitte Bardot hit …And God Created Woman  [Et Dieu… Créa La Femme] (1956) and filmed a new story with Rebecca De Mornay this time doing […]

Aug, 19

Song of Scheherazade ** (1947, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Phillip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 8832

Writer-director Walter Reisch’s Universal International Pictures’ amiably soppy and campy Technicolor extravaganza Song of Scheherazade (1947) is a fictionalised biopic of the Russian composer Nikolai ‘Nicky’ Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont), who finds his muse in dancing lady […]

Aug, 15

The Song of Songs *** (1933, Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 8831

Marlene Dietrich, finally separated by her Paramount Pictures studio from her Svengali director Josef Von Sternberg after a string of hits, fares only modestly with the highly respected director Rouben Mamoulian in the 1933 love […]

Aug, 15

Slightly Scarlet **** (1956, John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 8826

‘Out of the shadows of a vice-ridden city comes James M Cain’s most explosive drama!’ Director Allan Dwan’s sharp and stylish 1956 colour film noir crime thriller Slightly Scarlet is a neatly acted and smartly […]

Aug, 13

Frankenstein: The Real Story ** (1992, Patrick Bergin, Randy Quaid, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 8824

This monster just won’t lie down, will he? The busy Patrick Bergin brings his sombre demeanour to playing the character of Dr Victor Frankenstein in director David Wickes’s 1992 Gothic horror Frankenstein: The Real Story, […]

Aug, 13

The Man Upstairs *** (1958, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Donald Houston, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 8823

Director Don Chaffey’s 1958 black and white British thriller The Man Upstairs stars Richard Attenborough in the downbeat but involving story of apartment block tenant Peter Watson, The Man Upstairs who is having a nervous […]

Aug, 12

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