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Target for Tonight **** (1941, dir Harry Watt) – Classic Movie Review 4693

‘Actually filmed under fire! The RAF is its cast! The RAF filmed it!’ Director Harry Watt’s renowned documentary of the events leading to the carrying out of an RAF night bombing raid on Germany was […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

Painted Boats [The Girl on the Canal] *** (1945, Jenny Laird, Bill Blewitt, Robert Griffith, May Hallatt, Madoline Thomas, Grace Arnold, Harry Fowler, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 4692

Director Charles Crichton’s warm and appealing 1945 Ealing Studios wartime drama tells the story of the adventures of two families – the Smiths and the Stoners – working on the colourfully painted canal boats on the […]

Nov, 24 · in Reviews

Nine Men *** (1943, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4691

Writer-director Harry Watt’s 1943 realist-style World War Two war picture is minor but tense, interesting and impressive. It stars Jack Lambert as Sergeant Watson, Gordon Jackson as the Young ‘un, Frederick Piper as Banger Hill, […]

Nov, 24

Brigadoon ***½ (1954, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 4690

Director Vincente Minnelli’s sweet 1954 musical stars winsome Gene Kelly and Van Johnson, who play two American tourists who get lost in the Scottish woodlands and stumble across Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that comes […]

Nov, 24

Loch Ness * (1996, Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, Harris Yulin, James Frain, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 4689

Despite all the personable Ted Danson’s valiant efforts as an American scientist investigating the Scottish loch and rumours of Nessie’s existence, director John Henderson’s vapid 1996 British family fantasy romantic comedy-drama never really comes to […]

Nov, 23

Lloyd’s of London *** (1936, Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Freddie Bartholomew, C Aubrey Smith, Guy Standing, Virginia Field, Montagu Love, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 4688

Director Henry King’s 1936 period drama stars Tyrone Power, whose career took off with this role as Lloyd’s insurance boss Jonathan Blake, who, it is alleged, is the friend of Lord Nelson (John Burton). Blake […]

Nov, 23

Fallen Angel **** (1945, Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, Bruce Cabot, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 4,687

Otto Preminger’s stylish and intriguing 1945 film noir thriller Fallen Angel stars Alice Faye, Dana Andrews and Linda Darnell. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s stylish and intriguing 1945 film noir thriller Fallen Angel stars Dana Andrews as slick, down-on-his-luck […]

Nov, 23

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