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- Passage Home ** (1955, Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento) – Classic Movie Review 13,530
- Noah’s Ark **** (1928, Dolores Costello, George O’Brien, Noah Berry Sr, Louise Fazenda, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,529
- Mark of the Phoenix ** (1958, Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence, Anton Diffring, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 13,528
- Sweet Liberty *** (1986, Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lillian Gish, Bob Hoskins, Saul Rubinek, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 13,527
- A Gunman Has Escaped ** (1948, John Harvey, John Fitzgerald, Robert Cartland, Maria Charles, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,526
- Outside the Law ** (1930, Edward G Robinson, Mary Nolan, Owen Moore) – Classic Movie Review 13,525
- Black Orchid ** (1953, Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley, Mary Laura Wood, Patrick Barr, Russell Napier, Sheila Burrell) – Classic Movie Review 13,524
- Neither the Sea nor the Sand * (1972, Susan Hampshire, Frank Finlay, Michael Petrovitch) – Classic Movie Review 13,523
- The Outsider *** (1939, George Sanders, Mary Maguire, Frederick Leister, Peter Murray-Hill, Barbara Blair, Walter Hudd, Kathleen Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 13,522
- Outside the Law *** (1956, Ray Danton, Leigh Snowden, Grant Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,521
Lacombe, Lucien **** (1974, Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler) – Classic Movie Review 4506
Co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1974 French wartime drama stars Pierre Blaise as the French peasant teenager Lucien Lacombe who lives in small town in the south-west of France, while his father is a prisoner of war […]
Le Souffle au Coeur [Dearest Love] [Murmur of the Heart] **** (1971, Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi) – Classic Movie Review 4505
Writer-director Louis Malle’s tender 1971 middle-class coming-of-age comedy of manners is the end of the first Indochina War. The film poses a rather delicate question: will the open-minded young teenage boy Laurent (Benoît Ferreux), who has the […]
The Sons of Katie Elder *** (1965, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Michael Anderson Jr, Earl Holliman, Martha Hyer, Jeremy Slate, James Gregory, Paul Fix, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 4504
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1965 old-style big-budget Western has a great cast and is thoroughly robust but it suffers from having a commonplace tale about the four macho-minded ranch owner sons of the frontier woman Katie […]
Dragstrip Riot [The Reckless Age] ** (1958, Yvonne Lime, Fay Wray, Gary Clarke, John Garwood, Bob Turnbull, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 4503
Director David Bradley’s fun 1958 trash cult movie stars Gary Clarke, Yvonne Lime and Fay Wray, and is set in a beach community in Malibu, California. Clarke plays teenager Rick Martin who promises his mother he won’t get […]
The Cool and the Crazy **½ (1958, Scott Marlowe, Gigi Perreau, Richard Bakalyan, Dickie Jones, Robert Hadden, Kenneth Plumb) – Classic Movie Review 4502
Director William Witney’s somewhat less than explosive 1958 kitsch cult thriller for American International Pictures is a juvenile delinquent movie exposé of the horrors of marijuana. Scott Marlowe stars as Bennie, a veteran of reform schools, who […]
The Cooler **** (2004, William H Macy, Mario Bello, Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy, Ron Livingston, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 4501
William H Macy stars as a middle-aged Las Vegas casino worker who falls for a young hooker-waitress (Mario Bello), upsetting his nasty boss, Alec Baldwin. Macy turns on his sad charm as a loser who […]
The Sorrow and the Pity [Le Chagrin et La Pitié] ***** (1969, Pierre Mendès-France, Christian de la Mazière) – Classic Movie Review 4500
Co-writer/ director Marcel Ophuls’s celebrated 1969 documentary film is an overwhelming experience both emotionally and intellectually. It investigates with masterly command and the utmost integrity France under the Nazi Occupation through a shrewd blend of […]
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- Passage Home ** (1955, Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento) – Classic Movie Review 13,530
- Noah’s Ark **** (1928, Dolores Costello, George O’Brien, Noah Berry Sr, Louise Fazenda, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams) – Classic Movie Review 13,529
- Mark of the Phoenix ** (1958, Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence, Anton Diffring, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 13,528
- Sweet Liberty *** (1986, Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Lillian Gish, Bob Hoskins, Saul Rubinek, Lois Chiles) – Classic Movie Review 13,527
- A Gunman Has Escaped ** (1948, John Harvey, John Fitzgerald, Robert Cartland, Maria Charles, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,526
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