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Une Partie de Plaisir [Pleasure Party] [Pleasure Game] *** (1975, Paul Gégauff, Danièle Gégauff, Clémence Gégauff, Paula Moore, Giancarlo Sisti) – Classic Movie Review 8980

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1975 Une Partie de Plaisir [Pleasure Party] [Pleasure Game] [Love Match] is a study of an apparently idyllic and blissful but actually disastrous marriage that takes a dark, cynical and bleak view […]

Oct, 14

A Prize of Gold *** (1955, Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Patrick, George Cole, Donald Wolfit) – Classic Movie Review 8972

Director Mark Robson’s 1955 A Prize of Gold tells a story of spirited high jinks in post-war Berlin. It is produced by Irving Allen and Albert R Broccoli, who formed Warwick Films to produce films […]

Oct, 10

The Roots of Heaven ** (1958, Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles, Herbert Lom, Paul Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 8971

Director John Huston’s 1958 adventure drama The Roots of Heaven is a bumpy ride, in which the intelligent dialogue and messages (based on Romain Gary’s novel) take second place to mediocre adventure. It stars the […]

Oct, 09

Wounds (2019, Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke) – Movie Review

Oh Armie Hammer! He finds himself stranded in writer-director Babak Anvari’s going-nowhere horror mystery dud Wounds (2019), based on The Visible Filth, a horror novella by Nathan Ballingrud. Yet he gives is his all as […]

Oct, 05

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? *** (1983, Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 8956

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s tasty 1983 comedy romance Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is a whimsically amusing, talky, plotless film from the admired film-maker, with starring Karen Black as edgy Zee, taking up with hypochondriac divorcee […]

Oct, 01

The Hoodlum Priest *** (1961, Don Murray, Keir Dullea, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Logan Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 8953

Director Irvin Kershner’s 1961 black and white drama The Hoodlum Priest stars Don Murray as St Louis Jesuit priest, Father Charles Dismas Clark, who tries to keep hoodlum Billy Lee Jackson (Keir Dullea) on the […]

Sep, 30

Canadian Pacific ** (1949, Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, Nancy Olson, J Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 8,950

The solid, busy 1949 Western movie Canadian Pacific stars an ideal Randolph Scott as a railroad surveyor who discovers the pass through the Rockies, fights Indians and battles a trapper-boss (Victor Jory). Director Edwin L […]

Sep, 29

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