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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
Sophie’s Choice **** (1982, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel) – Classic Movie Review 4498
Writer-producer-director Alan J Pakula’s quietly devastating 1982 film, faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by William Styron, stars Meryl Streep, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Sophie, the enigmatic Polish survivor of Nazi concentration […]
Burn Burn Burn ***½ (2015, Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Joe Dempsie, Jack Farthing, Jane Asher, Nigel Planer, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alice Lowe, Sally Phillips, Alison Steadman) – Movie Review
Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey) and Chloe Pirrie star as busom buddies Seph and Alex, who attend the funeral of their best friend Dan (Jack Farthing), who has died of a rare cancer at 29. Dan’s […]
Little Men **** (2016, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri, Alfred Molina, Talia Balsam) – Movie Review
Ira Sachs’s 2016 family drama Little Men is a very sweet and also very sad movie, beautifully acted, wisely written and nicely realised. Greg Kinnear does wonders to light up a none-too-sympathetic role as the weak-willed, […]
Sons and Lovers ****½ (1960, Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Heather Sears, William Lucas, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 4498
Director Jack Cardiff’s 1960 British film Sons and Lovers is an astonishingly distinguished, and often heartrending version of the D H Lawrence semi-autobiographical novel. Young American star Dean Stockwell is entirely at ease as the […]
White Dog **** (1982, Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody, Marshall Thompson, Paul Bartel, Dick Miller, Parley Baer, Samuel Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 4497
Esteemed cult writer director Samuel Fuller delivers an uncomfortable but rivetingly intriguing 1982 thriller, in which Kristy McNichol stars as Julie Sawyer, an actress who unwittingly takes in a white German Shepherd dog trained to […]
Cinderella Liberty **** (1974, James Caan, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, Kirk Calloway, Burt Young, Bruno Kirby, Dabney Coleman, Sally Kirkland, Allan Arbus) – Classic Movie Review 4496
Director Mark Rydell’s 1974 movie Cinderella Liberty stars James Caan as warm-natured lonely US Navy sailor John Baggs Jr, who is enjoying an extended liberty pass of leave in Seattle after his service records are […]
The Light Between Oceans *** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown, Anthony Hayes) – Movie Review
Derek Cianfrance’s first film since his edgy epic crime thriller The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) is a very different kind of movie, a classy old-style romantic drama about a World War One battle-scarred, world-weary lighthouse keeper, Tom […]
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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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