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- Leprechaun * (1993, Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton, Robert Gorman) – Classic Movie Review 13,983
- Quatermass [The Quatermass Conclusion] *** (1979, John Mills, Simon McCorkindale, Margaret Tyzack, Barbara Kellerman, Brewster Mason, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Movie Review 13,982
- Plunder Road ***½ (1957, Gene Raymond, Jeanne Cooper, Wayne Morris, Elisha Cook Jr, Stafford Repp, Steven Ritch, Nora Hayden, Don Garrett, Jim Canino) – Classic Movie Review 13,981
- Wife Wanted *** (1946, Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Shayne, Veda Ann Borg) Classic Movie Review 13,980
- Payday **** (1973, Rip Torn, Ahna Capri) – Classic Movie Review 13,979
- Fair Wind To Java *** (1953, Fred MacMurray and Vera Ralston, Robert Douglas, Victor McLaglen, Philip Ahn, Claude Jarman Jr, Grant Withers, Keye Luke, John Russell, Buddy Baer) – Classic Movie Review 13,978
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Saint Jack **** (1979, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6326
Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1979 cult movie adaptation of Paul Theroux’s 1973 novel Saint Jack is one of his best films for many years, made after a three-year hiatus following three flop movies in a row. Ben […]
Happy Gilmore * (1996, Adam Sandler, Carl Weathers, Richard Kiel, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen) – Classic Movie Review 6325
Director Dennis Dugan’s popular but extremely annoying 1996 so-called ‘comedy’ finds Adam Sandler doing his goofy act as Happy Gilmore, a hopeless ice-hockey player who turns to golf with expected farcical results. The movie is […]
Billy Madison * (1995, Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 6324
Adam Sandler’s early effort Billy Madison is a struggle to sit through. To inherit the wealth of his hotel chain boss dad (Darren McGavin), 27-year-old Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) has to go bad to school […]
The Likely Lads *** (1976, Rodney Bewes, James Bolam, Brigit Forsyth, Mary Tamm, Sheila Fearn, Zena Walker) – Classic Movie Review 6323
James Bolam and Rodney Bewes star in director Michael Tuchner’s amiable 1976 comedy spin-off from their sequel British TV show Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (January 1973 to April 1974) – though it has the title of […]
Billy Liar ***** (1963, Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie, Rodney Bewes, Leonard Rossiter) – Classic Movie Review 6,330
John Schlesinger’s 1963 British New Wave film Billy Liar blends kitchen-sink drama, satirical humour and fantasy to brilliant effect. Tom Courtenay is superb as the undertaker’s clerk who lives in a world of dreams, while […]
Spring and Port Wine **** (1970, James Mason, Diana Coupland, Susan George, Rodney Bewes, Hannah Gordon, Adrienne Posta, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6,322
The 1970 British kitchen sink drama film Spring and Port Wine is based on a hit stage play by Bill Naughton, and provides a grand role for James Mason as a North West England father who attempts to assert his […]
Slaughterhouse-Five *** (1972, Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Sorrell Booke, John Dehner, Perry King) – Classic Movie Review 6321
Director George Roy Hill bites off more than he can chew in this 1972 movie of another of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s virtually unfilmable fantasy novels – Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children’s Crusade – adapted by screen-writer […]
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- Leprechaun * (1993, Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton, Robert Gorman) – Classic Movie Review 13,983
- Quatermass [The Quatermass Conclusion] *** (1979, John Mills, Simon McCorkindale, Margaret Tyzack, Barbara Kellerman, Brewster Mason, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Movie Review 13,982
- Plunder Road ***½ (1957, Gene Raymond, Jeanne Cooper, Wayne Morris, Elisha Cook Jr, Stafford Repp, Steven Ritch, Nora Hayden, Don Garrett, Jim Canino) – Classic Movie Review 13,981
- Wife Wanted *** (1946, Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Shayne, Veda Ann Borg) Classic Movie Review 13,980
- Payday **** (1973, Rip Torn, Ahna Capri) – Classic Movie Review 13,979
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