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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, […]

Jul, 02

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 […]

Jul, 02

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 […]

Jun, 29

A Zed & Two Noughts **** (1985, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber, Jim Davidson) = Classic Movie Review 8654

Director Peter Greenaway’s 1985 film A Zed & Two Noughts is more like a diagram than a narrative, overflowing with symbols and puns, and underpinned by the memorable Michael Nyman soundtrack. A surgeon covets the […]

Jun, 29

The Champagne Murders ** (1967, Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 8646

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1967 thriller The Champagne Murders [Le Scandale] is an unexpected misfire from Chabrol during his best period, with Maurice Ronet starring as Paul Wagner, an oddball playboy who may be a murderer. […]

Jun, 27

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane **** (1976, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Scott Jacoby) – Classic Movie Review 8643

Director Nicolas Gessner’s 1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a dark, taut, extremely well-done Grand Guignol suspense thriller, teetering on the edge of bad taste. Jodie Foster stars as the 13-year-old […]

Jun, 26

London Belongs to Me [Dulcimer Street] **** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8642

Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]

Jun, 26

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