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Paris Was a Woman **** (1996, voice of Juliet Stevenson) – Classic Movie Review 13,540

Juliet Stevenson narrates director Greta Schiller’s endearing 1996 documentary feature film Paris Was a Woman about the female artists, writers, photographers and designers in Paris in the inter-war years. Juliet Stevenson narrates director Greta Schiller’s […]

May, 28

Park Plaza 605 [Norman Conquest] ** (1953, Tom Conway, Eva Bartok, Joy Shelton, Robert Adair, Sidney James, Richard Wattis, Carl Jaffe, Anton Diffring) – Classic Movie Review 13,539

The 1953 British second feature crime film thriller Park Plaza 605 [Norman Conquest] stars Tom Conway as a private investigator mixed up in a murder investigation where he’s the prime suspect, and Eva Bartok as […]

May, 27

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie ***** (1988, director Marcel Ophuls) – Classic Movie Review 13,538

Marcel Ophuls’s searing 1988 documentary film Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie explores the life of the Nazi war criminal who worked in Vichy France during World War Two. It won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Hotel Terminus […]

May, 26

The Hour before the Dawn * (1944, Franchot Tone, Veronica Lake, John Sutton, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 13,537

The 1944 war drama film The Hour before the Dawn stars Franchot Tone as a British conscientious objector and Veronica Lake as young Austrian woman he marries, who turns out to be a German agent. Director […]

May, 26

The Magnificent Fraud * (1939, Akim Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Boland, Patricia Morison, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 13,535

The 1939 film The Magnificent Fraud stars Akim Tamiroff as an actor hired by a con man (Lloyd Nolan) to impersonate the assassinated president of a Latin American country. Director Robert Florey’s 1939 Paramount Pictures […]

May, 25

Those People Next Door ** (1953, Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Gladys Henson, Garry Marsh, Jimmy James, Anthony Newley) – Classic Movie Review 13,534

The class-conscious 1953 film Those People Next Door is a story of Brits raising their family in the shadow of the Blitz, and stars Jack Warner, Charles Victor and Marjorie Rhodes Director John Harlow’s 1953 class-conscious British black […]

May, 25

The Great Profile *** (1940, John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Lionel Atwill, Edward Brophy) – Classic Movie Review 13,533

The 1940 comedy film The Great Profile stars hard-drinking John Barrymore, who gamely sends himself up as a drunken actor whose follies endanger the show he is in. Director Walter Lang’s 1940 American black and white […]

May, 25

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