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- Night Monster *** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Irene Hervey, Lionel Atwill, Nils Asther, Leif Erickson, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot) – Classic Movie Review 13,914
- The Ride Back *** (1957, Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan) – Classic Movie Review 13,913
- Woman’s World *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 13,912
- A Woman’s Vengeance [The Giaconda Smile] **** (1948, Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 13,911
- Terror from the Year 5000 [Cage of Doom] * (1958, Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens) – Classic Movie Review 13,910
- The Puppet Masters ** (1994, Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Keith David, Julie Warner, Andrew Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 13,909
- Fuze ** (2025, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elham Ehsas, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 13,908
- Perro Perro *** (2025, Germán Flood, Juan Ramos) – Classic Movie Review 13,907
- A Taste of Excitement ** (1969, Eva Renzi, David Buck, Peter Vaughan, Francis Matthews, Sophie Hardy, Paul Hubschmid, Kay Walsh, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 13,906
- Lone Cowboy ** (1933, Jackie Cooper, Lila Lee, John Wray, Addison Richards) – Classic Movie Review 13,905
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Édouard et Caroline [Edward and Caroline] **** (1951, Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette, Jean Galland, Jacques François) – Classic Movie Review 8672
Director Jacques Becker’s witty 1951 black and white French comedy Edouard et Caroline [Edward and Caroline] stars Daniel Gélin and Anne Vernon as pianist Edouard and his wife Caroline, who fight as he gets ready […]
Goupi Mains Rouges [It Happened at the Inn] **** (1943, Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Albert Rémy) – Classic Movie Review 8671
Director Jacques Becker’s 1943 black and white film Goupi Mains Rouges [It Happened at the Inn] is an extremely effective, deservedly admired French black comedy about the murder of an old woman in a French […]
Montparnasse 19 [Les Amants de Montparnasse] **** (Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Anouk Aimée, Gérard Séty, Lino Ventura, Lea Padovani, Lila Kedrova) – Classic Movie Review 8670
Director Jacques Becker’s penultimate film, the 1958 artist biopic Montparnasse 19 [Les Amants de Montparnasse], gives a fascinating insight into the life of Italian tubercular, alcoholic, poor painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), famed for […]
Casque d’Or ***** (1952, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin) – Classic Movie Review 8,669
The 1952 Casque d’Or is a dazzling example of the postwar French film, perfectly capturing the nostalgic poetic-pessimistic mood of the time. It won one BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress (Simone Signoret). Director […]
Le Trou [The Hole] **** (1960, Philippe Leroy, Marc Michel, André Bervil, Jean Keraudy, Michel Constantin) – Classic Movie Review 8668
Director Jacques Becker’s gritty 1960 French crime thriller / drama Le Trou [The Hole] tells a grim but gripping and intelligent escape story, based on a novel by José Giovanni but taken from real life, […]
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! ** (1965, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Ustinov, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 8667
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Is an off-target, iffy, campy and very silly Sixties satirical comedy from writer William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote The Exorcist. Richard Crenna plays […]
Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] **** (1939, Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Tim Holt, James Ellison, Franklin Pangborn) – Classic Movie Review 8660
Producer-director Gregory La Cava’s 1939 screwball romantic comedy Fifth Avenue Girl [5th Ave Girl] is a sweet Hollywood fairy tale starring Ginger Rogers as a penniless, on-the-dole, plain-Jane called Mary Grey, who is taken in […]