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Devotion *** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Arthur Kennedy, Montagu Love, Paul Henreid, Dame May Whitty, Ethel Griffies) – Classic Movie Review 6,811

Warner Bros’ 1946 romantic biographical drama film Devotion stars Ida Lupino as Emily Brontë, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, Nancy Coleman as Anne Brontë, and Arthur Kennedy as Branwell Brontë. Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1946 […]

Mar, 16 · in Reviews

The Constant Nymph **** (1943, Charles Boyer Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre, Eduardo Ciannelli, Brenda Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 6810

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1943 Hollywood version of Margaret Kennedy’s bestselling novel and play (with Basil Dean) is the third movie of the piece, originally filmed in GB in 1928 with Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton, […]

Mar, 16 · in Reviews

As the Earth Turns ** (1934, Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Russell Hardie) – Classic Movie Review 6809

Director Alfred E Green’s 1934 Warner Bros movie tells the stout-hearted tale of trials and tribulations of an immigrant family on a Maine farm, with nice but ambitious Polish immigrant Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) fighting against the […]

Mar, 16

Seems Like Old Times **** (1980, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin) – Classic Movie Review 6808

Ah, it does seem like old times, with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, back in the good old days! Director Jay Sandrich’s 1980 comedy is one of umpteen movies written by Neil Simon and produced […]

Mar, 16

Tomb Raider * (2018, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nick Frost) – Movie Review

Director Roar Uthaug’s Lara Croft videogame franchise reboot Tomb Raider is a nice try, but mostly quite boring, and largely just going through the motions of being exciting. Apart from an ill-judged Nick Frost cameo as […]

Mar, 15

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 […]

Mar, 15

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 […]

Mar, 15

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