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- Gigi *** (1949, Danièle Delorme, Gaby Morlay, Yvonne de Bray, Franck Villard, Jean Tissier) Classic Movie Review – 13,971
- The Replacement Killers *** (1998, Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jürgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Clifton Collins Jr, Carlos Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 13,970
- Coyote Ugly *** (2000, Piper Perabo, John Goodman, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Izabella Miko, Melanie Lynskey, Bridget Moynahan, Tyra Banks, LeAnn Rimes, Bud Cort) – Classic Movie Review 13,969
- Shadow of Fear *** (1964, Paul Maxwell, Clare Owen, Anita West, Alan Tilvern, John Arnatt, Eric Pohlmann, Reginald Marsh, John Sutton, Anthony Wager, Colin Tapley) – Classic Movie Review 13,968
- Race Street **** (1948, George Raft, Marilyn Maxwell, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 13,967
- Swamp Fire ** (1946, Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Virginia Grey, Carol Thurston) – Classic Movie Review 13,966
- Dangerous Partners *** (1945, James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Warner Anderson, Felix Bressart, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 13,965
- A Dangerous Profession **** (1949, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Jim Backus, Bill Williams, Roland Winters) – Classic Movie Review 13,964
- Bad Girl **** (1931, Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, William Pawley, Frank Darien) – Classic Movie Review 13,963
- Pick-Up *** (1933, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 13,962
The High Bright Sun [McGuire, Go Home!] ** (1965, Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 6807
Dirk Bogarde is on commanding form in director Ralph Thomas’s otherwise ordinary 1965 adventure movie as Major McGuire, an intelligence officer in the British Army occupying Cyprus in the Fifties (it is 1957) during Cyprus’s war […]
High Barbaree ** (1947, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell, Cameron Mitchell, Claude Jarman Jr, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 6806
Although director Jack Conway’s 1947 MGM adventure is based on the story by the Mutiny on the Bounty authors Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, it is a drab desert island fantasy. Van Johnson stars […]
The King and Four Queens ** (1956, Clark Gable, Jo Van Fleet, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jean Willes, Sara Shane) – Classic Movie Review 6805
Director Raoul Walsh’s roistering and raunchy 1956 Western has a tailor-made role for an agreeably ageing Clark Gable (now no longer with his long-term studio MGM) as the King (his movie nickname too as the […]
Mary Magdalene * (2018, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim) – Movie Review
Director Garth Davis struggles to tell screen-writers Helen Edmundson and Philippa Goslett’s revised, modernised version of the story of Mary Magdalene, with inert and uninvolving performances from Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene, Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus, Chiwetel Ejiofor as […]
Reunion **** (1989, Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West) – Classic Movie Review 6804
Reunion is the haunting story of the broken ‘enchanted friendship’ of two teenage boys of different backgrounds in 1932-33 Germany, with Harold Pinter’s distinguished screenplay adapting Fred Uhlman’s novel. Count Konradin von Lohenburg: ‘I believe in […]
Preaching to the Perverted (1997, Christien Anholt, Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell) – Classic Movie Review 6803
Tom Bell stars as moral crusader right-wing British MP Henry Harding, who despatches a computer wiz-kid called Peter Emery (Christien Anholt) to infiltrate the London S&M scene, in this 1997 British sex comedy film Preaching to […]
The Bishop’s Wife **** (1947, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 6802
Hitchcock’s favourite actor Cary Grant (Suspicion) makes an awkward fit as an angel in The Bishop’s Wife (1947). The cinema’s best ever light comedian is always at his best in a subtle or ambiguous role and […]
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- Gigi *** (1949, Danièle Delorme, Gaby Morlay, Yvonne de Bray, Franck Villard, Jean Tissier) Classic Movie Review – 13,971
- The Replacement Killers *** (1998, Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jürgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Clifton Collins Jr, Carlos Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 13,970
- Coyote Ugly *** (2000, Piper Perabo, John Goodman, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Izabella Miko, Melanie Lynskey, Bridget Moynahan, Tyra Banks, LeAnn Rimes, Bud Cort) – Classic Movie Review 13,969
- Shadow of Fear *** (1964, Paul Maxwell, Clare Owen, Anita West, Alan Tilvern, John Arnatt, Eric Pohlmann, Reginald Marsh, John Sutton, Anthony Wager, Colin Tapley) – Classic Movie Review 13,968
- Race Street **** (1948, George Raft, Marilyn Maxwell, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 13,967
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