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Madonna of the Seven Moons **** (1945, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart, Jean Kent, Dulcie Gray) – Classic Movie Review 6,965

Can we have your attention, please, for ‘The year’s strangest, most absorbing drama!’, the 1945 Gainsborough melodrama film Madonna of the Seven Moons, starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc. Director Arthur Crabtree’s engagingly florid 1944 British movie […]

Apr, 25 · in Reviews

Avengers: Infinity War **** (2018, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans) – Movie Review

Simply put, directors Anthony and Joe Russo’s Infinity War (2018) is The Avengers and their allies versus one single super-villain Thanos, who needs a full collection of all six Infinity Stones to have the power to destroy the universe. The […]

Apr, 25 · in Articles

Waterloo Road **** (1945, John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Jean Kent, Beatrice Varley, Alison Leggatt) – Classic Movie Review 6964

Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1945 British black and white wartime romantic drama movie Waterloo Road for Gainsborough Pictures stars John Mills as English soldier Jim Colter, who is called up to fight in World War Two. […]

Apr, 24

The Magic Bow ** (1946, Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 6963

Director Bernard Knowles’s 1946 historical biographical music drama stars Stewart Granger, who unfortunately is hopelessly miscast and all at sea as the Italian violin virtuoso and composer Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), who falls for the French […]

Apr, 24

The Lamp Still Burns **** (1943, Rosamund John, Stewart Granger, Godfrey Tearle, Joyce Grenfell, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6962

Director Maurice Elvey’s heartfelt 1943 British nursing and romantic drama is adapted from the novel One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens and tells the tale of the trials and tribulations of young nurses during […]

Apr, 24

Green Card ** (1990, Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Robert Prosky, Lois Smith) – Classic Movie Review 6961

Writer-producer-director Peter Weir’s 1990 romantic comedy is amiable enough but largely unfunny and unbelievable, with Gérard Depardieu showing the strain in his Hollywood debut as Georges, a French composer who enters into a marriage of […]

Apr, 24

Green for Danger ***** (1946, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Megs Jenkins, Leo Genn, Rosamund John) – Classic Movie Review 6960

‘Follow this man in the FOOTSTEPS of MURDER!’ Co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s 1946 British black comedy Green for Danger stars Alastair Sim at the zenith of his comic genius as the eccentric Inspector Cockrill of […]

Apr, 23

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